{"id":8856,"date":"2014-05-13T13:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2015-03-11T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T05:10:58","slug":"to-our-mothers-and-fathers-mothers-and-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/to-our-mothers-and-fathers-mothers-and-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"To Our Mothers&#8217; and Fathers&#8217; Mothers and Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>36&#8243; x 48&#8243;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mothersandfathersmothersandfathers_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mothersandfathersmothersandfathers_small.jpg\" alt=\"mothersandfathersmothersandfathers_small\" width=\"450\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mothersandfathersmothersandfathers_small.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mothersandfathersmothersandfathers_small-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sublimating the actual into the apocryphal \u2013 a phrase borrowed from Faulkner.  Apocryphal, spurious, of questionable authority.<\/p>\n<p>While this might have been painted from a photograph of my grandmother as a girl, it only remains so if I say it with words, in a title, or accompanying text.  Without words, the image opens back up into the silent nature of painting.  One of the greatest tensions between text and image, I think, is that text has the ability to make a claim \u2013 be truthful and authoritative or spurious and deceitful \u2013 while images do not, not on their own.  They just sit there being colors and lines arranged in a certain way, more or less full or empty of meaning, based on the taste and temperament of the viewer.  For all the similarities between writers and painters, this seems a fundamental difference.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was actually my mother.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>36&#8243; x 48&#8243; Sublimating the actual into the apocryphal \u2013 a phrase borrowed from Faulkner. Apocryphal, spurious, of questionable authority. While this might have been painted from a photograph of my grandmother as a girl, it only remains so if I say it with words, in a title, or accompanying text. Without words, the image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-gallery","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}