{"id":3732,"date":"2022-11-07T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:54:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:54:02","slug":"altered-horizons-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 77"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My kids used to accuse me of not knowing how to play, not being silly enough. And it\u2019s true. Silliness never came naturally to me. But now, photo-shopping allows me to stretch the truth and lie. To make things up. To play. Even when I\u2019m depressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bellies were plump and sagging on all the animals at the farm where I was doing a class photo-shoot. Back home, by the time I dropped my images into Photoshop, I couldn\u2019t remember exactly whose belly I\u2019d shot, a sheep\u2019s or a goat\u2019s or a horse\u2019s. No matter. For my fabricated landscape of the week, I was turning whoever\u2019s hairy belly it was into a heavenly body. I placed it over the upended, very somber trunk of a tree that, in my mind, resembled a flowing river. This is about as silly as I get.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Altered Horizons 77<\/p>\n

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My kids used to accuse me of not knowing how to play, not being silly enough. And it’s true. Silliness never came naturally to me. But now, photo-shopping allows me to stretch the truth and lie. To make things up. To play. Even when I’m depressed. The bellies were plump and sagging on all the […]<\/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":[2436,2259,705,1539,2271,976,2351,2435,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-77","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-depressed","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-therapeutic-photography","tag-trying-to-be-silly","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