{"id":2906,"date":"2014-05-11T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/hopelessly-lost\/"},"modified":"2014-05-11T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T18:04:00","slug":"hopelessly-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/hopelessly-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopelessly Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/06\/arts\/music\/a-new-york-premiere-for-john-luther-adamss-become-ocean.html?_r=0\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a> in the NY TIMES about composer John Luther Adams, another example of an artist&#39;s experience that has relevance to all creative endeavors, especially photography:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m highly suspicious of political art,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not a propagandist. I\u2019m not trying in my music to teach a lesson or tell a story. I\u2019m trying to discover a place and invite you into that landscape to find your own way and \u2014 if I\u2019m lucky \u2014 get hopelessly lost in it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMusic is not what I do; it\u2019s how I understand the world.\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t really create anything except answers to creation. Everything that we do, everything that we think, and everything that we think we create ultimately derives from this incredibly rich and complex and diverse world that we live in. It\u2019s impossible for us to separate who we are from where we are.\u201d<\/em><\/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\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01a3fd0643cc970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3217\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01a3fd0643cc970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01a3fd0643cc970b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3217\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in the NY TIMES about composer John Luther Adams, another example of an artist&#39;s experience that has relevance to all creative endeavors, especially photography: \u201cI\u2019m highly suspicious of political art,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not a propagandist. I\u2019m not trying in my music to teach a lesson or tell a story. I\u2019m trying [&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-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}