{"id":100,"date":"2009-11-27T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T01:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-11-27T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T01:41:09","slug":"two-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/two-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I lived in New Jersey I would often go into New York City to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u00a0 I remember a photograph I saw on one such trip and I thought I&#8217;d try to find it online.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called Diptych, Rope Pull by Fran\u00e7ois Alain Deschamps.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DT6341.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101 \" title=\"Diptych, Rope Pull\" src=\"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DT6341-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"Diptych, Rope Pull\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DT6341-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DT6341.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diptych, Rope Pull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I thought it was a fascinating photograph that captured the dichotomy of our society and the &#8220;third world.&#8221;\u00a0 The artist is using a rope to pull the two worlds together, yet we know he will not succeed.\u00a0 The passers-by look at him, like what is this guy trying to do.\u00a0 They keep walking.\u00a0 In the third-world, the kids are actually standing there watching him, and seem interested in what he&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>I remember happening upon this photograph on exhibit at the museum.\u00a0 I stood staring at it for a long while.\u00a0 Then I walked back down Fifth Avenue to the 34th street station and took the train back to New Jersey.\u00a0 Twenty years ago.\u00a0 Funny the things you remember.<\/p>\n<p>See it at the <a title=\"Diptych, Rope Pull\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/works_of_art\/collection_database\/photographs\/diptych_rope_pull_francois_alain_deschamps\/objectview.aspx?page=560&amp;sort=0&amp;sortdir=asc&amp;keyword=&amp;fp=1&amp;dd1=19&amp;dd2=0&amp;vw=1&amp;collID=19&amp;OID=190017904&amp;vT=1\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I lived in New Jersey I would often go into New York City to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u00a0 I remember a photograph I saw on one such trip and I thought I&#8217;d try to find it online.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called Diptych, Rope Pull by Fran\u00e7ois Alain Deschamps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}