{"id":2805,"date":"2016-12-11T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2016\/12\/a-way-of-learning\/"},"modified":"2016-12-11T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T13:33:15","slug":"a-way-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2016\/12\/a-way-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Way of Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In art school, photographer Harley Weir pushed back against the predominant mind-set favoring intellect over intuition in self-expression:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt was frowned upon to do something that was good looking or less considered, more intuitive,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I don\u2019t like the idea of coming to an art project knowing what you want \u2014 for me, I find photography a way of learning, to figure something out with an image.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/08\/t-magazine\/art\/harley-weir-boundaries-photography-solo-show.html?hpw&amp;rref=t-magazine&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;_r=0&amp;module=Slide&amp;region=SlideShowTopBar&amp;version=SlideCard-9&amp;action=Click&amp;contentCollection=T%20Magazine&amp;slideshowTitle=Harley%20Weir\u2019s%20\u201cBoundaries\u201d&amp;currentSlide=9&amp;entrySlide=1&amp;pgtype=imageslideshow\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01bb095e413f970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-12-11 at 8.30.50 AM\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01bb095e413f970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01bb095e413f970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"Screen Shot 2016-12-11 at 8.30.50 AM\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In art school, photographer Harley Weir pushed back against the predominant mind-set favoring intellect over intuition in self-expression: \u201cIt was frowned upon to do something that was good looking or less considered, more intuitive,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I don\u2019t like the idea of coming to an art project knowing what you want \u2014 for me, [&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-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","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=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}