{"id":719,"date":"2015-01-22T19:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2015-01-22T19:55:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:55:55","slug":"the-last-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/the-last-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last time I visited Ireland, my other “my country”, was 2009. Yesterday I got this painting from my dear friend Corina Thornton<\/a>\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf, an artist based in Ireland; and as you can see, I’ve hung it just above my writer’s forge. It’s called “The Last Fence” and it gives me no end of joy: partly knowing it’s from a friend, and mostly from imagining what magical and philosophical discoveries might be made in the undiscovered country before me, just one hop over one last fence.<\/p>\n

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Here is a closeup of the painting:<\/p>\n

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I sometimes tell people that I live in a library, because one of the rooms in my apartment has a wall that’s nothing but books, over 800 of them, wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling. But over the last six months I’ve decked my white walls with a landscape (a lake-scape?) by local Ottawa artist Gordon Coulthart<\/a>, and a water-scape by Elora artist Carolyn Sharp<\/a>, and a special poem-painting by my dear friend Marie-Claude Dufour, and some reproductions of classics by The Group of Seven<\/a>. I’ve also picked up from my parents some canvasses I painted back in high school. Maybe my library is turning into an art gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last time I visited Ireland, my other “my country”, was 2009. Yesterday I got this painting from my dear friend Corina Thornton\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf, an artist based in Ireland; and as you can see, I’ve hung it just above my writer’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}