{"id":19649,"date":"2024-10-07T00:18:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T00:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19649"},"modified":"2025-05-22T00:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:39:17","slug":"the-irresolute-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19649","title":{"rendered":"The irresolute sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October 6, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Now that October is on the calendar and as Canada is on the verge of lower temperatures, I was reminded of a gloomy sunrise I once witnessed in my home country. The sun was there, but then again it was not. It was what I would call an irresolute sun. &#8220;Shall I rise, shall I not&#8230; &#8221; Very typical for fall and winter days in northern Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-8.10.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-8.10.22-PM.png 669w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-8.10.22-PM-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-8.10.22-PM-665x861.png 665w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-8.10.22-PM-19x24.png 19w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-8.10.22-PM-28x36.png 28w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-8.10.22-PM-37x48.png 37w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Acylic canvas on board, 11 x 16&#8243;. CAD 500<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of those canvasses that are hard to photograph because the dark tones catch a lot of light, even when the painting is photographed in the shade. But you probably get the drift!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who dread winter as much as I do: I promise that the next works will be a lot more colourful. I have 2 pieces under development still, and one that is almost done. And they all feature a lot of colour, to brighten up the cold season ahead. One is a small painting, the other two are fairly big, so don&#8217;t get worried when things get silent here for a couple of weeks&#8230; I spend a lot of time in my cozy studio these days &#8211; unless we get nice sunny fall days. Then I will be out and about on my sturdy Dutch bike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 6, 2024 Now that October is on the calendar and as Canada is on the verge of lower temperatures, I was reminded of a gloomy sunrise I once witnessed in my home country. The sun was there, but then again it was not. It was what I would call an irresolute sun. &#8220;Shall I rise, shall I\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19649\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2671],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-blog"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Nicky","author_link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?cat=2671\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Artist&#039;s Blog<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Artist&#039;s Blog<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 12 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on ","modified":"Updated on "},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on  ","modified":"Updated on  "},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19655,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19649\/revisions\/19655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}