{"id":642,"date":"2025-07-13T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/?page_id=642"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:45:17","slug":"ephemerality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/?page_id=642","title":{"rendered":"Ephemerality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To Be Disturbed, <\/em>2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-tertiary-background-color has-background\">This work explores the concept of ephemerality and temporariness. The work was only on display for approximately 2 hours, and viewers were invited to touch, walk on, or otherwise disturb the &#8220;rug&#8221; as they pleased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1091\" height=\"1091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cover-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cover-2.jpg 1091w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cover-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cover-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cover-2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1091px) 100vw, 1091px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><em>To Be Disturbed<\/em>, 2025, dyed epsom salts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1310\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6737-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6737-copy.jpg 1310w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6737-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6737-copy-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-tertiary-background-color has-background\"><em>To Be Disturbed <\/em>took approximately 5 hours to set up, with three colors of dyed epsom salts being poured into a template and smoothed with a paintbrush to create a defined pattern on the floor. Over 12 hours total were spent on creating the work, including the dying, drying, and laying out of the salts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"1154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6745-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6745-copy.jpg 866w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6745-copy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_6745-copy-768x1023.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-tertiary-background-color has-background\">Viewers were given 15 minutes to touch and disturb the work, leaving what is seen above. Afterwards, the salts were swept up and disposed of, finalizing the ephemerality of the work.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/?page_id=634\">Back to Other Works<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Be Disturbed, 2025 This work explores the concept of ephemerality and temporariness. The work was only on display for approximately 2 hours, and viewers were invited to touch, walk on, or otherwise disturb the &#8220;rug&#8221; as they pleased. To Be Disturbed, 2025, dyed epsom salts To Be Disturbed took approximately 5 hours to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}