{"id":3760,"date":"2022-11-28T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:20:24","slug":"altered-horizons-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 80"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hate saying goodbye. Saying, \u201cSee you again soon\u201d feels much easier, even if I know I won\u2019t be back\u2014or see whoever or whatever\u2014 ever again. So when I leave, I go quietly, often without saying anything, and without leaving a trace. Sometimes my exit is all about escaping, and sometimes I\u2019m simply moving on to some other adventure. No looking back. No regrets, usually. Just off, alone, into the sunset.<\/span><\/p>\n

This juxtaposition of rocks at the Finger Lakes Stone Company reminded me of that. At the quarry there were slabs of stone and huge hunks of concrete wherever I looked, and I photographed dozens of lonely landscapes. The only thing I did in Photoshop for this fabricated landscape was piece together a frame from the lengths of concrete-strengthening rebar that I found laying about.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Altered Horizons 80<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate saying goodbye. Saying, “See you again soon” feels much easier, even if I know I won’t be back—or see whoever or whatever— ever again. So when I leave, I go quietly, often without saying anything, and without leaving a trace. Sometimes my exit is all about escaping, and sometimes I’m simply moving on […]<\/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":[2439,2259,705,2271,976,280,2349,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-80","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-saying-goodbye","tag-therapeutic-photograghy","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