{"id":3770,"date":"2022-12-05T07:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2022-12-05T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T02:01:07","slug":"altered-horizons-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 81"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It must have been one of my rough days, the day I photographed this huge pile of discarded building materials and then turned the image upside down in Photoshop. \u201cThe sky is falling, the sky is falling,\u201d is what I imagined at the time. Later, I added a photo of a chipped rock ledge for the \u201csky\u201d to land onto. And, to contain the chaos, I framed the scene with rebar, rods used to reinforce concrete. Unfortunately, now when I regard this fabricated landscape, I\u2019m reminded of media images of floods and rivers swollen with debris, carrying off people\u2019s homes and belongings. Creating these fake landscapes is not always an uplifting endeavor. But I get to control the devastation and disturbance in this one small scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Altered Horizons 81<\/p>\n

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It must have been one of my rough days, the day I photographed this huge pile of discarded building materials and then turned the image upside down in Photoshop. “The sky is falling, the sky is falling,” is what I imagined at the time. Later, I added a photo of a chipped rock ledge for […]<\/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":[2442,2259,705,2440,2289,976,2285,2441,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-81","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-devastation","tag-fabricated-landscape","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-phototherapy","tag-the-sky-is-falling","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