{"id":3685,"date":"2022-10-03T07:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2022-10-03T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:37:35","slug":"altered-horizons-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3686 size-large\" title=\"Altered Horizons 72 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes in dealing with depression and coping with loss.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Altered Horizons 72 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes in dealing with depression and coping with loss.\" width=\"625\" height=\"893\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost-630x900.jpg 630w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost-624x891.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SlateSkyPost.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As a recent graduate of <a href=\"www.davidkesslertraining.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Kessler\u2019s Grief Educator Program<\/a>, I am viewing grief differently now: I see grief as the pain of having loved, and view the pain of loss as a catalyst for purposeful action. Harrowing wounds have become my cherished scars. And the life I once saw as ruined due to loss is now a full life that honors my beloved ones who died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">One also needs to be flexible in the ways of viewing things when creating fabricated landscapes. I flipped last week\u2019s cement \u201csky\u201d upside down to turn it into this week\u2019s land. Then, in Photoshop, I changed last week\u2019s red slate hill into this week\u2019s teal blue sky. Or\u2014if you can imagine moving the horizon line upwards off the picture\u2014this week\u2019s landscape becomes an aerial view over the shore of a calm bay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Altered Horizons 72<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a recent graduate of David Kessler&rsquo;s Grief Educator Program, I am viewing grief differently now: I see grief as the pain of having loved, and view the pain of loss as a catalyst for purposeful action. Harrowing wounds have become my cherished scars. And the life I once saw as ruined due to loss [&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":[2427,2426,2259,705,2256,2271,976,2425,2351,2255],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-72","tag-change-the-way-you-look-at-things","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-due-to-loss","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-seeing-things-differently","tag-therapeutic-photography","tag-upside-down-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","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=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}