{"id":989,"date":"2013-02-13T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T06:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2013-02-13T23:37:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T06:37:42","slug":"lost-in-abstractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Abstractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-990\" title=\"magnolia bark, feb2013\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1.jpg 1341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-992\" title=\"telephone pole abstraction, feb2013\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-2.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-991\" title=\"monochromes, feb2013\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photo.jpg 2017w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I walk down the San Francisco streets lined with Victorian row houses, and instead of noticing grand rooflines, or the often spectacularly ornate doorways and windows, I look at drain pipes, and telephone poles, and air vents. I crouch down to frame a shot of curling Magnolia tree bark, or the shadow of a twig in the slanting afternoon sun. I wait through three traffic light changes, Basil impatient in the stroller, to capture staples and bolts on a telephone pole.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because my brain is filled beyond capacity with big ideas from my thesis, and I&#8217;m not getting nearly enough sleep. Or maybe it&#8217;s the endlessly clear, wide open, blue skies we&#8217;ve been having, bright and warm every day. Or possibly the craving for nature, and open space. But lately I go out in the world and focus on abstractions, on lines, on colors. I obsess about images that thrill with their negative space. I take picture after picture of corners, and slants of light.<\/p>\n<p>Want to join me this week? What do the colors, shapes, objects in your daily life look like in the abstract?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walk down the San Francisco streets lined with Victorian row houses, and instead of noticing grand rooflines, or the often spectacularly ornate doorways and windows, I look at drain pipes, and telephone poles, and air vents. 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