{"id":2731,"date":"2019-11-30T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/11\/alive-and-present\/"},"modified":"2019-11-30T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T22:13:49","slug":"alive-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/11\/alive-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Alive and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been fans of cartoonist Lynda Barry since coming across her unique perspective on the world way back in the 80\u2019s and purchasing her unforgettable poster: \u201cPoodle With A Mohawk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent and well-deserved recipient of the Macarthur \u201cGenius Grant\u201d, Barry has offered advice about harnessing the creative process for decades, including this observation:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026.there are two working languages in human life. One is sort of top of the mind, what we\u2019re conscious of. The other is this unconscious stuff that we might not know about or have access to. The way we access it is usually through this thing we call \u2018the arts.\u2019 Unfortunately, that has gotten removed from the regular daily experience of human life. What I\u2019m trying to do is to show that there is a way that they can come together, and that you can make things in a way that makes you actually feel alive and present.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"Open%20Culture. http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/11\/lynda-barrys-new-book-offers-a-master-class-in-making-comics.html\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4a376d0200c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Poodle with a Mohawk\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4a376d0200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4a376d0200c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"Poodle with a Mohawk\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been fans of cartoonist Lynda Barry since coming across her unique perspective on the world way back in the 80\u2019s and purchasing her unforgettable poster: \u201cPoodle With A Mohawk.\u201d A recent and well-deserved recipient of the Macarthur \u201cGenius Grant\u201d, Barry has offered advice about harnessing the creative process for decades, including this observation: \u2026.there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}