{"id":4552,"date":"2016-08-09T01:13:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2016-08-09T01:15:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:15:54","slug":"a-short-visit-with-matteo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=4552","title":{"rendered":"A Short Visit With Matteo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matteo Destro is a mask maker, theater director and teacher. He was my mentor during the years I spent in Italy studying movement theater at Helikos and it&#8217;s his\u00a0voice I hear in my mind\u00a0whenever I&#8217;m making masks or puppets.<\/p>\n<p>He was passing through Ljubljana\u00a0so we threw him a little party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In just a few hours, three years worth of work and lessons came back in a flood. Sensitivity, silence, and observation\u00a0all contributing to the\u00a0poetry that can be achieved through theater. Not to mention I got to see some of the new masks he&#8217;s been working on. They are beautiful full face leather masks that are so simple and strong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We even had time to make some goofy pictures thanks to Justin and Ilgaz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good to see you again Matteo!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4553\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0552-e1470697341341-440x276.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0552\" width=\"440\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0552-e1470697341341-440x276.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0552-e1470697341341-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0552-e1470697341341-620x389.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4554\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0562-e1470697307197-620x388.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0562\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0562-e1470697307197-620x388.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0562-e1470697307197-440x275.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0562-e1470697307197-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matteo Destro is a mask maker, theater director and teacher. He was my mentor during the years I spent in Italy studying movement theater at Helikos and it&#8217;s his\u00a0voice I hear in my mind\u00a0whenever I&#8217;m making masks or puppets. He was passing through Ljubljana\u00a0so we threw him a little party. In just a few hours,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[383,437,396,453],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journal","tag-helikos","tag-ljubljana","tag-masks","tag-matteo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}