{"id":5348,"date":"2024-01-11T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:08:31","slug":"night-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=5348","title":{"rendered":"Night Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Night Watch” by Amy Guidry; Acrylic on canvas; 12″ x 12″; (c) Amy Guidry 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The latest painting in my In Our Veins<\/em> series is now finished. Night Watch<\/a><\/em> features a bobcat, which are adaptable and thrive in various habitats from forests to deserts. They are found throughout the Sonoran desert. The Zuni and Pawnee tribes see the bobcat as a sign of blessing. Among the Pawnee, the bobcat acts as a celestial bridge, symbolizing a connection between earth and stars. The Joshua tree, which grows despite harsh desert conditions, is seen as a symbol of hope and resilience. The beast heads are from a 17th century German book known as Aquarelle von S\u00e4ugetieren, V\u00f6geln, Insekten und Pflanzen samt deutschen Legenden (translated: Watercolors of Mammals, Birds, Insects, and Plants Together with German Legends). Night Watch<\/em> is an acrylic on canvas, 12″ wide x 12″ high, and available on my website here: https:\/\/amyguidry.com\/gallery\/night-watch\/index.html<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The latest painting in my In Our Veins series is now finished. Night Watch features a bobcat, which are adaptable and thrive in various habitats from forests to deserts. They are found throughout the Sonoran desert. The Zuni and Pawnee tribes see the bobcat as a sign of blessing. Among the Pawnee, the bobcat acts … Continue reading Night Watch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1182,1506,1577,1338,1837,1618,1622,1009,1841,1321,1820,1745,1744,465,34,5,55,1836,1281,1209,636,772,54,902,95,635,1106,374,517,13,164,397,767,365,331],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings","tag-animal-welfare","tag-big-cats","tag-home-decor","tag-interior-design","tag-joshua-tree","tag-lafayette-artist","tag-new-contemporary","tag-southern-artist","tag-spirit-animal","tag-vegan-artist","tag-contemporary-artist","tag-night-sky","tag-stars","tag-acadiana","tag-amy-guidry","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-bobcat","tag-cats","tag-conservation","tag-contemporary","tag-desert","tag-lafayette","tag-landscape","tag-louisiana","tag-modern","tag-mountains","tag-nature","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-surreal","tag-surrealism","tag-surrealist","tag-tree","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}