{"id":994,"date":"2023-08-17T06:58:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:37:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"994\" class=\"elementor elementor-994 elementor-149\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72683bc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"72683bc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24fdf4b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"24fdf4b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-651be39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"651be39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Giulia Forgione<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c994491 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c994491\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Self-taught potter with a background in anthropology and a permanent position that I left a few days before this shot.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;A tiny room with a metal shelf, a large table, some clay and the exuberant company of my dog-that&#8217;s how it all started.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Deep down, I always knew I wanted to work with my hands, but I came to ceramics after much wandering.<\/p>\n<p>Lacking any formal training, the challenges at the beginning were numerous, and frustration stayed with me for a long time. However, the desire to experiment kept me going\u2014kneading, undoing, and redoing, over and over again. Until today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f25e7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3f25e7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/about_2-1024x684.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-131\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/about_2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/about_2-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/about_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/about_2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/about_2-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/about_2.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7faeecf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7faeecf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\"> <\/div>\n<p>My practice is deeply influenced by local geology and botany. I try to give them a voice through the making of ceramics. Rocks, local clays, ashes from different plants, and waste materials from construction sites and quarries are the raw materials from which my research starts.<\/p>\n<p>I take great satisfaction in seeing rocks and dust destined for disposal become a beautiful glaze, thus making ceramics a more environmentally sustainable practice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giulia Forgione Self-taught potter with a background in anthropology and a permanent position that I left a few days before this shot. &#8220;A tiny room with a metal shelf, a large table, some clay and the exuberant company of my dog-that&#8217;s how it all started.&#8221; Deep down, I always knew I wanted to work with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-994","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/994\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giuliaforgione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}