{"id":64474,"date":"2025-02-02T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T16:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=64474"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:40:12","slug":"the-ugly-spirit-with-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/02\/the-ugly-spirit-with-commentary.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Spirit … with commentary<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ready for his closeup.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a>
Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Jan Herman<\/em><\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I know where this image came from. It began with the random association of two photos that I sliced up longitudinally with a razor, then interlaced the resulting strips side by side. I subsequently photographed it, cut it in half, mirror-imaged it, dropped out the background and very slightly manipulated the color and sharpness. The result seemed to me utterly surprising, just as confounding, and very disturbing. In a word, scary. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not ready for his closeup.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Not<\/a>
Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Jan Herman<\/em><\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know where this image came from. It began with the random association of two photos that I sliced up longitudinally with a razor, then laid the resulting strips side by side. I subsequently photographed it, dropped out the background and very slightly manipulated the color and sharpness. The result seemed to me utterly surprising, just as confounding, and very disturbing. In a word, scary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-ugly-spirit-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-gLU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65660,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64474\/revisions\/65660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}