{"id":5375,"date":"2015-03-07T19:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2015-03-07T19:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T00:30:35","slug":"paradox-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/paradox-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Response: Paper Flower with Stars, No. 1; a Flower as a World \u2014Cheryl<\/h6>\n

She [Georgia O\u2019Keeffe] painted flowers as no one else painted them: in enormous close-up. You feel the flowers pressing against your face; you smell them; you sense the silky petals. The flowers are partly realistic \u2026 and partly abstract. \u2026 The approach is deeply sensuous, and critics at the time did not quite know what to make of it. Even those who admired her used the term \u201csexual.\u201d O\u2019Keeffe, a redoubtable woman, found this very annoying. Her answer was: \u201cI made you take the time to look at what I saw. And when you took time to really notice my flower, you put all your own associations with flowers onto my flower.\u201d She kept her vision focused, insisting on seeing a flower as a world. \u2014Sister Wendy Beckett on O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s \u201cWhite Rose with Larkspur No. 2<\/a>\u201d in Sister Wendy\u2019s American Collection.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love reading\/listening to what Sister Wendy has to say about art. She knows the history, she understands the techniques and media, but most importantly, she shares what she feels and articulates what occurs in her own mind. I don\u2019t have to agree with her assessments, but I usually understand why she makes them. Sister Wendy has taught me, perhaps more than anyone else, that conversation between me and a work of art (an image, a sculpture, a poem, a book) is\u2014in the end\u2014the only one that really matters, especially if it leads me to a deeper understanding of the world, the humanity around me, and the Creator who loves it all.<\/p>\n

Everything about art (and that includes literature) is paradoxical, and that\u2019s what makes it exciting and endlessly fascinating. Why are the stories that leave me with questions the best ones? Why do I share my work with others when I seldom feel it is good enough? Why does everyone else praise the images that leave me cold? Why do I turn to macros, multiple exposures, and blurry forms when I am looking for clarity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Response: Paper Flower with Stars, No. 1; a Flower as a World \u2014Cheryl She [Georgia O\u2019Keeffe] painted flowers as no one else painted them: in enormous close-up. You feel the flowers pressing against your face; you smell them; you sense the silky petals. The flowers are partly realistic \u2026 and partly abstract. \u2026 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,16,1344,1346,1131,272,1347,1345],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-flowers","tag-georgia-okeeffe","tag-literature","tag-multiple-exposure","tag-paper","tag-questions","tag-sister-wendy-beckett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D42d-1oH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5379,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}