{"id":4912,"date":"2018-11-26T00:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=4912"},"modified":"2018-11-26T00:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:59:52","slug":"steven-epstein-the-old-man-and-the-egg-acrylic-on-canvas","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?project=steven-epstein-the-old-man-and-the-egg-acrylic-on-canvas","title":{"rendered":"Steven Epstein \u201cThe old man and the egg\u201d acrylic on canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement:<\/p>\n<p>Winter, the cold and bare season, is also used as a symbol for a state of being or time of life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In the seasons of a person it is usually associated with old age. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Old Man and the Egg\u201d I\u2019ve associated winter with the advanced years of the subject.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The subject is my father in an assisted living center.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The life he has lived in full is in his countenance, the lines in his face, the wear and scars, the character of his hands( he called them \u201clapas\u201d) with which he made his living.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>All the experience of his years are there and though he might seem to have a mischievous look on his face his memory is as faded as the green blanks on the wall behind him where pictures had been hung and taken down; his state of being as fragile as the egg in front of him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Blues come into play from knowing him and what now he has become and what we all may become as we head through the last season of our years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement: Winter, the cold and bare season, is also used as a symbol for a state of being or time of life.\u00a0 In the seasons of a person it is usually associated with old age. \u00a0 In \u201cThe Old Man and the Egg\u201d I\u2019ve associated winter with the advanced years of the subject.\u00a0 The subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[55],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4912","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-winter-blues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4914,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/4912\/revisions\/4914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_category&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_tag&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}