{"id":3249,"date":"2022-01-17T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:59:46","slug":"altered-horizons-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was not one of my better days. The sun was cruel and cold in a colorless sky on the morning a container of blueberries fell and burst all over the front seat of my car. I continued on with my errands, getting caught at every traffic light on the way downtown, picking up mashed berries each time I stopped for a red light. Finally at the county offices, I found a good parking spot but the pay station kept rejecting my credit card and I had no coins on me. So I dashed in to quickly to pick up the papers I needed. And, as I\u2019d feared, my car was ticketed by the time I got back out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life can be harsh. Some days it\u2019s difficult to leave the safety and comfort and predictability of home. My photography shoots don\u2019t always end up in cozy lit studios, green valleys with pretty horses, or intriguing mountains of material wastes. At Cornell\u2019s Hydroplant and Lake Source Cooling Plant there were ridged metal plates, grates and grinders, and all sorts of machinery with moving parts. Signs warned, \u201cKeep Back,\u201d and I did. And later, in Photoshop, I collaged several steely sharp-looking parts to create a hard merciless sun over a landscape of mashing metal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Altered Horizons 35<\/p>\n

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It was not one of my better days. The sun was cruel and cold in a colorless sky on the morning a container of blueberries fell and burst all over the front seat of my car. I continued on with my errands, getting caught at every traffic light on the way downtown, picking up mashed […]<\/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":[2354,705,2271,2348,976,2347,2297,2285,2349,2270],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-35","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-fear-of-leaving-my-house","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-life-is-hard","tag-photoshop-for-healing","tag-phototherapy","tag-therapeutic-photograghy","tag-upended-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}