{"id":3140,"date":"2021-09-27T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:09:21","slug":"altered-horizons-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On a rainy gray afternoon I rummaged through the house to photograph things that reflected light, things that absorbed light, things with grit, and grooves, and threads, and pronounced textures. It happened to be one of my \u201cbad\u201d days. You know what I mean, one of those colorless days when nothing, not even chocolate cake, can calm the deep aching of a shredded heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tossing together all the holey, groovy, scratchy images in Photoshop, I composed my grief landscape. My sun is a tea strainer I pasted onto a crystal saucer. The rainy sky is my bedroom carpet. The hill is the brim of a hat. And it\u2019s all framed with the drainage strip that keeps floodwaters from entering my home.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On a rainy gray afternoon I rummaged through the house to photograph things that reflected light, things that absorbed light, things with grit, and grooves, and threads, and pronounced textures. It happened to be one of my “bad” days. You know what I mean, one of those colorless days when nothing, not even chocolate cake, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2308,438,705,2271,247,2297,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-19","tag-coping-with-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief","tag-photoshop-for-healing","tag-upended-life","tag-upside-down-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t