{"id":3308,"date":"2015-07-11T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T21:09:23","slug":"5th-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/portals-passages\/5th-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--\nWiB post has the date of the text, not the illustrating photo.\nExperiment with sticking to the front page\nGPlus Timestamp: Jul 11, 2015\nGPlus Permalink: https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+MSinclairStevens\/posts\/RGkG3av3MaB\nCollection: Portals and Passages \n-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Portals: Constraints and Revelations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When we are on the inside looking out, as +nomad dimitri  noted recently, windows not only limit our perspective but insulate us; they create a barrier that separates us from physical contact with the world and prevents us from passing through intimate experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">At other times, we may find ourselves on the outside looking in, glimpsing at a life we can never hope to attain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/20070320_8939g-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/20070320_8939g-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/20070320_8939g-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/20070320_8939g-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/20070320_8939g.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Bergdorf Goodman, 5th Avenue, New York City<br>2007-03-20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this window display at Bergdorf Goodman on New York&#8217;s 5th Avenue more ominous than inviting: the female figure objectified and faceless, no eyes to see; the sneering herd of male figures leering down on her from above; the passerby on the street looking in. The reflection of other windows. Who gazes down at us unseen from those windows? And I behind my own lens and filter, hidden from view provide the window that constrains your gaze.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;more ominous than inviting: the female figure objectified and faceless, no eyes to see; the sneering herd of male figures leering down on her from above; the passerby on the street looking in. The reflection of other windows. Who gazes down at us unseen from those windows? And I behind my own lens and filter, hidden from view provide the window that constrains your gaze. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/portals-passages\/5th-avenue\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[333,359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}