{"id":2559,"date":"2021-09-12T19:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2021-09-13T01:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T01:41:38","slug":"that-crystalline-9-11-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"That Crystalline 9\/11 Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Blue-Sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Blue-Sky-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2560\" width=\"697\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Blue-Sky-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Blue-Sky-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Blue-Sky-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Blue-Sky-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Blue-Sky.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People have fixated on the New York sky of 9\/11, as if such a perfect, crystalline sky could not have produced such horror.\u00a0 I love that September blue that I might find in the Mediterranean or faraway islands: deep and saturated of color, yet transparent, both a well of feeling and container of emptiness.\u00a0 It\u2019s like peering deep into a jewel, a sapphire, only to spin in its possibility, its sparkle of life.\u00a0 That Henri Matisse anointed the North American atmosphere as special \u2014 \u201cso dry, so crystalline, like no other\u201d &#8212; seals it.  It\u2019s a verifiable wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, the skyscrapers that Matisse saw tapering upward until they assumed the quality of light crumbled in that sky, severed by hijacked planes in that sky. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we look upward with our confusion, the sky will be clear, light shimmering as it catches little particles.&nbsp; It has blinked and renewed itself. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matisse looked up and saw, in his 1944 cut-out, Icarus falling from the sky with a shattered red heart.&nbsp; It was World War II, a pilot was falling from the lumunious blue sky.&nbsp; The sky then renewed itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simone Weil said of the sea: ships are wrecked and sailors are drowned.&nbsp; The sea causes grief. But that doesn\u2019t make it any less beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have fixated on the New York sky of 9\/11, as if such a perfect, crystalline sky could not have produced such horror.\u00a0 I love that September blue that I might find in the Mediterranean or faraway islands: deep and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1],"tags":[1148,1152,1150,7,1149,1151,60],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-9-11","tag-blue","tag-crystalline-sky","tag-matisse","tag-september-11","tag-september-sky","tag-simone-weil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Fh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}