{"id":1237,"date":"2005-11-22T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T05:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/22\/ah-the-subconscious\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:46:14","slug":"ah-the-subconscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/22\/ah-the-subconscious\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the Subconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received some feedback that the AEM for <a href=\"\/mindfullife\/archives\/001231.html\">November 21<\/a> looked like a vagina with the face of a baby being born, and I was asked if that was what I&#8217;d had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>The answer: not consciously, no. As I drew, the idea of water and breaking through the surface was present. Water represents emotion. I love swimming underwater and coming up through the depths. Emotional discovery is similar.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further consideration, it is quite possible some deep part of myself was thinking about childbirth, since it has been on my mind. So perhaps that influenced what I drew. Certainly the theme of emerging is prominent in my life these days as I consider what&#8217;s next. What&#8217;s also interesting is how others might interpret what I made. Someone commented that other perspectives could be the face looking down on the viewer, or even as one stepping through toward the viewer. <\/p>\n<p>I like that I created a piece that brought such interesting and varied responses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received some feedback that the AEM for November 21 looked like a vagina with the face of a baby being born, and I was asked if that was what I&#8217;d had in mind. The answer: not consciously, no. As I drew, the idea of water and breaking through the surface was present. Water represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12430,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/12430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}