{"id":113,"date":"2020-06-05T20:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=113"},"modified":"2020-06-05T20:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:02:39","slug":"5-summer-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2020\/06\/05\/5-summer-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 summer summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newspaper&#8217;s and journalist&#8217;s job is to bear witness to what is happening in the world. I try to take it all in and then digest. I read about the history of racism, the protests, and the way individuals are taking action. My medium is clay and paint and paper. These images are snapshots of how I put it together. I attempt understanding through the things I make and the ways they can be used. I am trembling, thinking, questioning, cooking, sitting at the table, talking and listening, and finally writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/05-summer-2020-1024x978.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/05-summer-2020-1024x978.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/05-summer-2020-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/05-summer-2020-768x733.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/05-summer-2020.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LET THEM NOT SAY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let them not say: we did not see it.<br>We saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let them not say: we did not hear it.<br>We heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let them not say: they did not taste it.<br>We ate, we trembled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let them not say: it was not spoken, not written.<br>We spoke,<br>we witnessed with voices and hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let them not say: they did nothing.<br>We did not-enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let them say, as they must say something:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A kerosene beauty.<br>It burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let them say we warmed ourselves by it,<br>read by its light, praised,<br>and it burned,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Jane Hirshfield, in Ledger, Alfred A. Knopf, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newspaper&#8217;s and journalist&#8217;s job is to bear witness to what is happening in the world. I try to take it all in and then digest. I read about the history of racism, the protests, and the way individuals are taking action. My medium is clay and paint and paper. These images are snapshots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}