{"id":1307,"date":"2024-10-15T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natm.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:08:55","slug":"1307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2024\/10\/15\/1307\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Morgan\u2019s Sunset at Sea really struck me. I almost missed it, I saw it in my periphery and did a double-take. The composition is somewhat circular, the water arced around the sun, the clouds a mirror of that same arc. The spherical seascape speaks on the eternal nature of water. It always has existed, exists, and always will exist. It\u2019s a cycle. However, the cycle is also constantly changing &#8211; a rolling and swirling body that is never the same in any given place. Because of this, I love how the sun\u2019 and its glare are centered inside the circle of ocean and sky, the stagnancy of the sun, the fact that it is so unmoving, adds a level of complexity to the piece. For me this piece demonstrates the paradox of nature: it is always the same, and it is ever-changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Morgan\u2019s Sunset at Sea really struck me. I almost missed it, I saw it in my periphery and did a double-take. The composition is somewhat circular, the water arced around the sun, the clouds a mirror of that same arc. The spherical seascape speaks on the eternal nature of water. It always has existed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}