{"id":177,"date":"2020-07-07T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:18:42","slug":"sonas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/sonas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"177\" class=\"elementor elementor-177\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f750b5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f750b5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e8696f9\" data-id=\"e8696f9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f857e1e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-gallery\" data-id=\"f857e1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-gallery.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-177 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"f857e1e\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Sonas | Oil pastel on canvas board 140 x 100 cm 2018\" e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MzYwLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvcXVhbnRhcmluYS5jb21cL2FydFwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyMFwvMDdcL3NvbmFzLTEuanBnIiwic2xpZGVzaG93IjoiZjg1N2UxZSJ9\" href='https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sonas-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sonas-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sonas-1.jpg 752w, https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sonas-1-600x798.jpg 600w, https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sonas-1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45c4825 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45c4825\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6bfd872\" data-id=\"6bfd872\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47b444d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"47b444d\" 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<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">What is happiness? It\u2019s a momentary feeling that one can capture in a state between a feeling of responsibility, pressure, commitment and the sudden satisfaction of completed work. This painting is a symbol of thousands of such ephemeral feelings that were awaited and directed into the canvas. The only goal of this art work was to be filled with such happy moments with no room for doubt, dissatisfaction or being lost. Happiness is indeed quite simple when it happens, but to make it happen it is really hard, because I think happiness comes when all levels of human physical and psychological states synchronize in a beautiful dance.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; color: #ffffff;\">The title of this art work is \u2018sonas\u2019, a Scottish Gaelic word for \u2018happiness\u2019. Why Scottish? For many reasons! Perhaps, I was influenced by the TV shows, \u2018Outlander\u2019 and \u2018Reign\u2019, both based on the history of Scotland, perhaps, because \u2018sonas\u2019 looks and is pronounced so much like \u2018songs\u2019 and I definitely associate happiness with music, dance and childlike pleasures, naivety, spontaneity, and absolute, unconditional certainty that the world is a good place.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happiness? It\u2019s a momentary feeling that one can capture in a state between a feeling of responsibility, pressure, commitment and the sudden satisfaction of completed work. This painting is a symbol of thousands of such ephemeral feelings that were awaited and directed into the canvas. The only goal of this art work was to be filled with such happy moments with no room for doubt, dissatisfaction or being lost. Happiness is indeed quite simple when it happens, but to make it happen it is really hard, because I think happiness comes when all levels of human physical and psychological states synchronize in a beautiful dance. The title of this art work is \u2018sonas\u2019, a Scottish Gaelic word for \u2018happiness\u2019. Why Scottish? For many reasons! Perhaps, I was influenced by the TV shows, \u2018Outlander\u2019 and \u2018Reign\u2019, both based on the history of Scotland, perhaps, because \u2018sonas\u2019 looks and is pronounced so much like \u2018songs\u2019 and I definitely associate happiness with music, dance and childlike pleasures, naivety, spontaneity, and absolute, unconditional certainty that the world is a good place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantarina.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}