{"id":2867,"date":"2015-04-05T08:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T12:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/04\/unknown-known-2\/"},"modified":"2015-04-05T08:40:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T12:40:58","slug":"unknown-known-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/04\/unknown-known-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s a provocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/12\/08\/georgia-okeeffe-sherwood-anderson-letters\/\" target=\"_self\">excerpt from a letter<\/a> written by American painter Georgia O&#39;Keefe that speaks to the mysterious nature of the artistic impulse and the necessity of trusting it:<\/p>\n<p><em>Making the unknown\u2014known\u2014in terms of one\u2019s medium is all-absorbing\u2014if you stop to think of the form\u2014as form you are lost\u2014The artist\u2019s form must be inevitable\u2014You mustn\u2019t even think you won\u2019t succeed\u2014Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant\u2014there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/12\/08\/georgia-okeeffe-sherwood-anderson-letters\/\" target=\"_self\">thanks, BP<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d0fc5127970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DandelionApplePetals\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d0fc5127970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d0fc5127970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"DandelionApplePetals\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s a provocative excerpt from a letter written by American painter Georgia O&#39;Keefe that speaks to the mysterious nature of the artistic impulse and the necessity of trusting it: Making the unknown\u2014known\u2014in terms of one\u2019s medium is all-absorbing\u2014if you stop to think of the form\u2014as form you are lost\u2014The artist\u2019s form must be inevitable\u2014You mustn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","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=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}