{"id":576,"date":"2023-02-24T17:33:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/?page_id=576"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:54:36","slug":"the-mirror-is-dark-and-inky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/the-mirror-is-dark-and-inky\/","title":{"rendered":"The mirror is dark and inky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected-540x332.jpg 540w, https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected-1080x664.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected-600x369.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-1-web-corrected.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation at Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>The mirror is dark and inky <\/em>(5mins 38sec, Persian with English subtitles, 2015)\u00a0is comprised of images of daily life in Iran- driving through the city in the afternoon, playing board games with friends- alongside the narration of a neighbour concerned about a whale living in a bath in her apartment building. As the film progresses, we leave the city behind and move into the forest in northern Iran, where the narration turns inwards to a \u201cfeeling that does not come from my brain, it more erupts and descends like a fog, barely perceptible until it is enveloping, with a similar cold, dewy feeling.\u201d The whale is the mirror, and the mirror is dark and inky.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed on location in Tehran and northern Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Created with the support of the Kooshk Artist Residency Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-primary-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-primary-background-color has-background\"\/>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2dae02483c8b2e1dda30a6819b47cee9\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mirror is dark and inky (5mins 38sec, Persian with English subtitles, 2015)\u00a0is comprised of images of daily life in Iran- driving through the city in the afternoon, playing board games with friends- alongside the narration of a neighbour concerned about a whale living in a bath in her apartment building. As the film progresses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}