{"id":16200,"date":"2023-05-14T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2023-05-14T19:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T19:31:05","slug":"the-golden-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/the-golden-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this isn\u2019t merely a dream I\u2019m touring California and seeing fog soothe rocks by an ocean shore, lush trees shade a lake, a river glisten under clouds and sky, serene cows calm a meadow, an electric-orange sunset light exotic desert plants in the foreground, mountains overwhelm powerlines and trash in a pond, spring green hills back an imposing tower, a guard tower surrounded by an electrified fence and razor wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019re you doing out there?\u201d booms an electronic voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m touring one of thirty-three scenes in <em>Incarcerated: Visions of California in the 21st Century <\/em>by Sandow Birk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe a prisoner here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, he\u2019s a painter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, yeah, the guy who\u2019s making fun of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s political,\u201d I say, \u201cbut not derisive.\u00a0 The point is what he implies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another voice takes over and says, \u201cThis is the warden.\u00a0 You want to see more of Birk\u2019s work, go to the San Jose Museum of Art and enter his <em>Inferno from<\/em> <em>Indestructible Wonder.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks, warden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetter go now or we\u2019ll assume you\u2019re trying to help bad buys escape, and you\u2019ll join them inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guarantee I\u2019m not doing that, warden, but I\u2019ll leave at once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a few hours I\u2019m at the museum and write this about <em>Heat<\/em> by Sandow Birk:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\">golden gate<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\">and world trade center<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\">wither above traffic<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\">in nuclear<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\">oven<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0No way I\u2019m going down into that and I\u2019m sure not going to prison.\u00a0 Where\u2019s a guy supposed to go, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sandowbirk.com\/prisonation\">Incarcerated: Visions of California in the 21st Century<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paint-Blue-George-Thomas-Clark-ebook\/dp\/B00UKXD22A\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2AA461C911OJ8&amp;keywords=paint+it+blue%2C+clark&amp;qid=1684092262&amp;sprefix=paint+it+blue%2C+clark%2Caps%2C167&amp;sr=8-1\">Paint it Blue by George Thomas Clark<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this isn\u2019t merely a dream I\u2019m touring California and seeing fog soothe rocks by an ocean shore, lush trees shade a lake, a river glisten under clouds and sky, serene cows calm a meadow, an electric-orange sunset light exotic desert plants in the foreground, mountains overwhelm powerlines and trash in a pond, spring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,50,119,337,2050],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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