{"id":3275,"date":"2022-02-07T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2022-02-07T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:26:10","slug":"altered-horizons-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3276 size-full\" title=\"Altered Horizons 38 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes in dealing with depression and coping with grief and loss.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post.jpg\" alt=\"Altered Horizons 38 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes in dealing with depression and coping with grief and loss.\" width=\"1436\" height=\"949\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post.jpg 1436w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AH38Post-624x412.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1436px) 100vw, 1436px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In the next year or two I will move away from my house by Moonbeckon Pond. The thing I will miss most is my view of the sparkling pond right outside the large south-facing windows. A hundred times each day, my eyes rest on that sight; from the early morning light until the darkness of nighttime, the sight of that pond calms me. The place I will move to has no water features. The landscape consists of row upon row of attached houses and parking areas. When I no longer have my pond to gaze upon, in order to soothe my sore eyes, I will need to have created landscapes to hang on my new walls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Although this scene was collaged in Photoshop using items of sentimental value\u2014a foreground made up of several shots of my kids\u2019 old dog-robot toy, a sky crafted from grillwork in Australia\u2019s Old Melbourne Jail, a moon that is from the bottom of a bowl of my mother\u2019s that\u2019s been with me over half a century, and a frame pieced together from drainage strips on the doorstep of my current beloved home\u2014this is not the landscape that will settle my soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Altered Horizons 38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next year or two I will move away from my house by Moonbeckon Pond. The thing I will miss most is my view of the sparkling pond right outside the large south-facing windows. A hundred times each day, my eyes rest on that sight; from the early morning light until the darkness of [&hellip;]<\/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":[2360,2259,2357,705,2271,314,2358,2356,2359],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-38","tag-coping-with-change","tag-coping-with-grief-and-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grieving","tag-losing-something-you-love","tag-losing-what-youre-familiar-with","tag-upended-life-therapeutic-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","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=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}