{"id":6107,"date":"2013-08-07T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/?p=171"},"modified":"2013-08-07T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:22:49","slug":"fluxus-is-messing-with-my-mind-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/08\/07\/fluxus-is-messing-with-my-mind-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluxus is messing with my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">So why, while I was photographing this object<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/2rulers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172 \" alt=\"Photo of 2 Wooden Rulers\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/2rulers-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/2rulers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/2rulers.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Wooden Rulers, 1970<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0did I think of this painting?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_173\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/reclining_venus_wikipedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173 \" alt=\"Reclining Venus\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/reclining_venus_wikipedia-300x207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/reclining_venus_wikipedia-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/08\/reclining_venus_wikipedia.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reclining Venus, oil on canvas by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; image from <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres_-_Reclining_Venus_-_Walters_372392.jpg\">http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres_-_Reclining_Venus_-_Walters_372392.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Thanks to Fluxus, I don&#8217;t think I can look at the world the same again. Anything can be art. Anything has the possibility of becoming art. There can be beauty in anything. Even wooden rulers nestled in bubble wrap can conjure up an image of Venus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Or perhaps, I have been alone with this collection and my thoughts a little too long&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why, while I was photographing this object &nbsp;did I think of this painting? Thanks to Fluxus, I don&rsquo;t think I can look at the world the same again. Anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6109,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}