{"id":2725,"date":"2025-10-21T19:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-76\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:54:00","slug":"reflection-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An art piece that invoked strong feelings for both my group and I was a mural called the Web of Life by John Biggers 1958. In this mural, John Biggers juxtaposes transitions from night to day and winter to summer, as humans sow and harvest crops. Humans are born from, nourished by, and in death return to the central figure of Mother Earth. In winter, a variety of creatures find life-sustaining shelter in the crevices of decaying stumps, while in spring water flows forcefully, reinvigorating aquatic life, soaking fertile farmland, and allowing trees to bloom. Biggers also celebrates mutual care and interdependence between humans and their environment by centering black figures. This specific mural invoked strong feelings to me because I\u2019m a huge nature person at heart and I love depictions of it in pop culture and especially art. This mural really highlighted the complexity and beauty of nature tastefully!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An art piece that invoked strong feelings for both my group and I was a mural called the Web of Life by John Biggers 1958. In this mural, John Biggers juxtaposes transitions from night to day and winter to summer, as humans sow and harvest crops. Humans are born from, nourished by, and in death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}