{"id":32855,"date":"2025-02-08T20:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/where-the-heart-is-the-artist-memorialising-homes-lost-in-the-la-fires-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:52:49","slug":"where-the-heart-is-the-artist-memorialising-homes-lost-in-the-la-fires-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/where-the-heart-is-the-artist-memorialising-homes-lost-in-the-la-fires-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the heart is: the artist memorialising homes lost in the LA fires \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 January, as fires raged across Los Angeles, local portrait artist Asher Bingham made an offer via an Instagram reel: \u201c To anyone that has lost a home in the #LAfires I will draw [it] for free.\u201d She had already drawn the house of a close friend that had burned down; by offering her services more widely, she hoped to help others grieve for what they\u2019d lost. She wasn\u2019t prepared for the response. So many people sent in photos \u2013 1,300 and counting \u2013 that she had to recruit volunteers to keep up with demand. For Bingham, it\u2019s all about the small details: wind chimes, potted plants. \u201cAnywhere I can see people put love into their home, I draw it,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m trying to recreate a memory that only lives in their minds of the beautiful time they lived there.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/asherbingham.fineart\/\">instagram.com\/asherbingham.fineart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/feb\/08\/where-the-heart-is-the-artist-memorialising-homes-lost-in-the-la-fires-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 January, as fires raged across Los Angeles, local portrait artist Asher Bingham made an offer via an Instagram reel: \u201c To anyone that has lost a home in the #LAfires I will draw [it] for free.\u201d She had already drawn the house of a close friend that had burned down; by offering her &#8230; <a title=\"Where the heart is: the artist memorialising homes lost in the LA fires \u2013 in pictures\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/where-the-heart-is-the-artist-memorialising-homes-lost-in-the-la-fires-in-pictures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Where the heart is: the artist memorialising homes lost in the LA fires \u2013 in pictures\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}