{"id":13082,"date":"2023-06-15T20:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T01:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=13082"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:15:19","slug":"a-thought-formed-into-an-encaustic-painting-then-turned-into-an-abstraction-neither-seen-nor-photographed-till-3-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=13082","title":{"rendered":"A Thought formed into an Encaustic Painting. Then Turned into an Abstraction. Neither &#8216;Seen&#8217; nor Photographed &#8217;till 3 Days Later."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;this thought&#8221; came to mind<br \/>\nwhen I picked up the birch bark shed in a woods.<br \/>\nI painted the thought with pigment, suspended in hot bee&#8217;s wax (encaustic)<br \/>\non Monday, 6\/12\/23.<br \/>\n(click images for larger view)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13084\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-1017x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-768x774.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a>Later that afternoon a fellow artist, whom I respect, suggested I present it with a 90 degree turn:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-2-1017x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-2-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-2-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-2-768x774.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010779-2.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a>This morning 6\/15\/23, while photographing other subjects,<br \/>\nI found the original thought, presented to me as reality.<br \/>\nMy life within these times and spaces can seem quite non-linear;<br \/>\nas well as non-dual; and entirely abstract; even when &#8220;upright.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13083\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-721x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-768x1091.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/>And so i wonder:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-2-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-2-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-2-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-2-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-2-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/L1010773-2.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;this thought&#8221; came to mind when I picked up the birch bark shed in a woods. I painted the thought with pigment, suspended in hot bee&#8217;s wax (encaustic) on Monday, 6\/12\/23. (click images for larger view)Later that afternoon a fellow artist, whom I respect, suggested I present it with a 90 degree turn:This morning 6\/15\/23, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13092,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13082\/revisions\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}