{"id":89,"date":"2008-11-29T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T00:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.eciad.ca\/justinnovak\/kohler-confessional-sink\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:33:28","slug":"kohler-confessional-sink","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/archive\/kohler-confessional-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohler Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/confessional-sink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/confessional-sink-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #333333\"> Produced at the Kohler factory, in a 2004 <em>Arts\/Industry<\/em> residency sponsored by John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the <em>Confessional Sinks<\/em> framed existing Kohler sinks within latticed ceramic panels that feature the quatrefoil pattern of a Catholic confessional screen. The sinks were thus transformed into sites of spiritual as well as physical cleansing. The integration of this ritual of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #333333\">atonement into<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #333333\"> a domestic object suggests a private reckoning with one&#8217;s past deeds rather than a reliance on religious institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/confess4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-70\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/confess4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Produced at the Kohler factory, in a 2004 Arts\/Industry residency sponsored by John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the Confessional Sinks framed existing Kohler sinks within latticed ceramic panels that feature the quatrefoil pattern of a Catholic confessional screen. The sinks were thus transformed into sites of spiritual as well as physical cleansing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/579"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}