{"id":10,"date":"2008-10-08T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-10-09T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:50:56","slug":"elderism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the catalog to her currently-touring exhibition, 96 year-old sculptor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\/exhibitions\/exhibition_pages\/bourgeois\/index.html\">Louise Bourgeois<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>&#8220;The spiral&#8211;I <em>love<\/em> the spiral&#8211;represents control and freedom.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fairly innocuous statement, were it not preceded by these five sentences:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>&#8220;The spiral is important to me. It is a twist. As a child, after washing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the tapestries in the river, I would turn and twist and ring them with<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0three others or more to ring the water out. Later I would dream of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0getting rid of my father&#8217;s mistress. I would do it in my dreams by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ringing her neck.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/21910\">New York Review of Books<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the catalog to her currently-touring exhibition, 96 year-old sculptor Louise Bourgeois states: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;The spiral&#8211;I love the spiral&#8211;represents control and freedom.&#8221; A fairly innocuous statement, were it not preceded by these five sentences: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;The spiral is important to me. It is a twist. As a child, after washing \u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}