{"id":3239,"date":"2024-01-28T22:06:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2024-01-29T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T02:23:02","slug":"the-secret-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"Secret Face &#8211; Upon Observing Barbara Kruger&#8217;s Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Kruger.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Kruger.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3240\" style=\"width:365px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A parking lot with rain:<br \/>How jagged the concrete<br \/>How silken its puddles&nbsp;<br \/>Its poured-out watery silhouettes<br \/>Magic concentric circles<br \/>Fast like a dazzling tap dancer<br \/>Whose moves outpace the eye<br \/>Or a spinning vinyl in black light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How the mind anticipates what it sees<br \/>How a camera reorganizes pixels differently\u00a0<br \/>How a Barbara Kruger slogan reveals digitally<br \/>What the eye doesn\u2019t see:\u00a0<br \/>An angry face in a vinyl LP<br \/>Sometimes the camera will unveil<br \/>Sometimes the surface is scrambled<br \/>That hidden message in the &#8220;White Album&#8221;<br \/>\u201cPaul is dead\u201d when dragged concentrically\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Backward.\u00a0\u00a0Remember the walrus.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Turn me on, dead man.\u00a0\u00a0Kruger on<br \/>The collision of looking &amp; being:\u00a0<em><br \/>The eye is the major player.\u00a0\u00a0A threat\u00a0<br \/>to that eye is a threat to what it means<br \/>to live another day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parking lot with rain:How jagged the concreteHow silken its puddles&nbsp;Its poured-out watery silhouettesMagic concentric circlesFast like a dazzling tap dancerWhose moves outpace the eyeOr a spinning vinyl in black light How the mind anticipates what it seesHow a camera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3239\">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":[116,361,1378,1377,1376,1375,527,138,1379],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-barbara-kruger","tag-beatles","tag-beatles-conspiracy","tag-ica","tag-image-culture","tag-perception","tag-poetry","tag-your-body-is-a-battleground"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Qf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","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=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}