{"id":42539,"date":"2022-03-17T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T03:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/17\/its-good-to-be-alive-groundbreaking-new-zealand-artist-brings-light-and-joy-to-city-streets"},"modified":"2022-03-17T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T03:56:59","slug":"its-good-to-be-alive-groundbreaking-new-zealand-artist-brings-light-and-joy-to-city-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42539","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s good to be alive\u2019: groundbreaking New Zealand artist brings light and joy to city streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sallie Culy, who has Williams Syndrome, is the first artist with an intellectual disability to exhibit in Wellington\u2019s public art Lightbox programme<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to be alive,\u201d artist Sallie Culy says as she finishes a ham and cheese sandwich at one of the many cafes she visits most days in Wellington. \u201cIt really is good to be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sallie\u2019s words, like much of how she interacts with the world, are life-affirming. As a person, and as an artist, she celebrates connection, imagination, joy and the daily interactions that make life shimmer. Her approach is a welcome reprieve at a time when the world grapples with tragedy, and the city Sallie loves \u2013 Wellington &#8211; is still catching its breath after a weeks-long protest that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/03\/this-is-a-moment-new-zealand-reckons-with-aftermath-as-smoke-clears-on-violent-protests\">ended with parliament\u2019s grounds burning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/17\/its-good-to-be-alive-groundbreaking-new-zealand-artist-brings-light-and-joy-to-city-streets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sallie Culy, who has Williams Syndrome, is the first artist with an intellectual disability to exhibit in Wellington\u2019s public art Lightbox programme\u201cIt\u2019s good to be alive,\u201d artist Sallie Culy says as she finishes a ham and cheese sandwich at one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,41,71,1020,56,966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-disability","category-new-zealand","category-wellington"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42550,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions\/42550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}