{"id":70,"date":"2021-03-20T03:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2021-06-30T22:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:03:32","slug":"war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/contemporary-art\/war-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"War and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>War and Peace<\/em> shall be my next book, following the four I am in the middle of now. I choose this title because I believe that reading it will place a lot of later literature into context. It&#8217;s like the spore of the fiction world&#8217;s mycelium. Currently, I am on part three of <em>The Warmth Of Other Suns<\/em>, which is 553 words, so I am learning how to pace a long novel. It feels like an important lesson in slowing down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/61IBluU1ZiL._SL350_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"74\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/61IBluU1ZiL._SL350_-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=74\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/61IBluU1ZiL._SL350_-1.jpg 232w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/61IBluU1ZiL._SL350_-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"235\" height=\"341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tolstoy_-_War_and_Peace_-_first_edition_1869-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"73\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tolstoy_-_War_and_Peace_-_first_edition_1869-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=73\" class=\"wp-image-73\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tolstoy_-_War_and_Peace_-_first_edition_1869-1.jpg 235w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tolstoy_-_War_and_Peace_-_first_edition_1869-1-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so tired from work this week and I only work 3 days a week. Do great creators ever get tired? Did Francis Picabia take breaks or ever feel down and lost? He reinvented his work countless times. I want to buy the MoMA book about him and make this book #5 in my rotation, to find kinship in his many, many, many phases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"725\" height=\"997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-femmes-au-bull-dog-women-with-bulldog-c-1941-725.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"75\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-femmes-au-bull-dog-women-with-bulldog-c-1941-725.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=75\" class=\"wp-image-75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-femmes-au-bull-dog-women-with-bulldog-c-1941-725.jpg 725w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-femmes-au-bull-dog-women-with-bulldog-c-1941-725-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"787\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-our-heads-are-round-so-our-thoughts-can-change-direction-145.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"76\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-our-heads-are-round-so-our-thoughts-can-change-direction-145.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=76\" class=\"wp-image-76\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-our-heads-are-round-so-our-thoughts-can-change-direction-145.jpg 787w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-our-heads-are-round-so-our-thoughts-can-change-direction-145-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/francis-picabia-our-heads-are-round-so-our-thoughts-can-change-direction-145-768x976.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><em>Femmes au bull-dog <\/em>Picabia Francis (1879-1953) and the cover of a book about him<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I snapped a photo of a spider web in the stairwell of my workplace today because it reminded me of a Vermeer painting. You know those days when you are at a job and feel that your soul is not present or being exercised during these passing hours and you do or see something that gives you a glimmer of yourself and your capabilities (as an artist or whatever)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/600px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"78\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/600px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/600px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/600px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/spiderweb-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"77\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/spiderweb-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=77\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/spiderweb-scaled.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/spiderweb-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">The Milkmaid (1758) and a photo I took of a spiderweb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow morning will bring a new day, and four days of painting. When I take breaks from painting, like if the oil makes my head feel light, I play piano. I think my vocal chords make pretty sounds, but they are a bit lost right now. They don&#8217;t know where to direct their energies. So I&#8217;m letting my fingers take over for a while. I am composing a piano piece for my next short film, &#8216;Anita&#8217;s Walk&#8217; which exists as a script, and images\/tones\/compositions in my head. The piano composition may also work as a sound track or theme to the painting I am working on right now. And another piano melody popped into my head today for my next painting, which will have a lighter value than the dark one I am finishing. I wish I could say I have synesthesia, but I do not. It makes me want to cry because it&#8217;s such a beautiful thing that I hope those who have it don&#8217;t feel inhibited by, if maybe it can feel like a problem or handicapped to have the sensation of color with sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I grew up in a beach town where women are tan year round, and looking good in a bathing suit is life or deathly important. I don&#8217;t want skin cancer, &#8216;a leather handbag&#8217; as my friend RyRy would say, but I still hold true that instinct of looking good in a bikini. SO YEAH I BOUGHT A NEW BIKINI IN MARCH. And I exercise. I splurged on a rash guard for when I start to feel my skin burning. I can&#8217;t wait to wear it on the beach with my hair up in my matching red scrunchie. I will blog about trivial things to illustrate the spectrum of thoughts that pass through a person&#8217;s mind, which are apart of the whole. However, the line is drawn at stream-of-consciousness, because that is boring, like someone telling you about their dream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_3758-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"80\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_3758-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=80\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_3758-1-scaled.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_3758-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Red bikini and rash guard from J Crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night we watched <em>Beau Travail <\/em>(1999, Claire Denis). Remarkable! Poetic. War porn for suuuure. The final dance sequence by Denis Lavant is transcendent, though based on reviews I&#8217;ve read today, I totally misunderstood the scene&#8217;s meaning, but that&#8217;s ok, because I&#8217;m a viewer and I can perceive or misperceive however my lived experience informs me to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"81\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=81\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600-1568x882.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29646id__0011_Layer-0_w1600.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Film still from <em>Beau Travail <\/em>(1999, Claire Denis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War and Peace shall be my next book, following the four I am in the middle of now. I choose this title because I believe that reading it will place a lot of later literature into context. It&#8217;s like the spore of the fiction world&#8217;s mycelium. Currently, I am on part three of The Warmth&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/contemporary-art\/war-and-peace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War and Peace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hollyoverton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}