{"id":82,"date":"2019-03-21T04:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T04:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/?p=82"},"modified":"2019-05-04T04:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T04:42:37","slug":"egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/2019\/03\/21\/egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the examples below show more explicit representations of the celestial body itself, the moon is somewhat omnipresent throughout much of MacIver\u2019s work. Its subtle glow and beam are captured in her luminous representations of city lights, cracks in the pavement, Parisian trees, and all sorts of luminous everyday objects.\u00a0 The essence of the moon as a subtle yet all powerful force is captured in these paintings, and many of the sketches below reveal the careful thought she put in to crafting the subtle colors of a moonbeam.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-249 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-249 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-dark fg-round-full fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-249\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/sunmoonstarsrain.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"sun moon stars rain\" data-caption-desc=\"These small sketches appear alongside the quote &quot;sun moon stars rain&quot; from one of Cummings&#039; most celebrated poems, &quot;anyone lives in a pretty how town.&quot; This is a lovely example of the ways in which MacIver engaged with the poetry of her friends, and how lines of their creation reverberated through her mind as she worked.  Look below this gallery for the full text of this poem and a further discussion of it.\" data-attachment-id=\"215\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"These small sketches appear alongside the quote &quot;sun moon stars rain&quot; from one of Cummings&#039; most celebrated poems, &quot;anyone lives in a pretty how town.&quot; This is a lovely example of the ways in which MacIver engaged with the poetry of her friends, and how lines of their creation reverberated through her mind as she worked.  Look below this gallery for the full text of this poem and a further discussion of it.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/sunmoonstarsrain\/99019301.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">sun moon stars rain<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">These small sketches appear alongside the quote \"sun moon stars rain\" from one of Cummings' most celebrated poems, \"anyone lives in a pretty how town.\" This is a lovely example of the ways in which MacIver engaged with the poetry of her friends, and how lines of their creation reverberated through her mind as she worked.  Look below this gallery for the full text of this poem and a further discussion of it.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/ParcelofMoonlight.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A Parcel of Moonlight\" data-caption-desc=\"&quot;Once Cummings allowed us into the small second-floor room where he did his writing. It was quite bare except for straight-backed chars and a table piled with manuscript. At one side, as in so many of his rooms, was a miniature fireplace. In the slightly dark room a luminous rectable glowed like moonlight in the hearth of the fireplace. We exclaimed at its beauty. \n\n&#039;Yes,&quot; said Cummings, &quot;And at night it lets down a parcel of moonlight&quot;\" data-attachment-id=\"214\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"&quot;Once Cummings allowed us into the small second-floor room where he did his writing. It was quite bare except for straight-backed chars and a table piled with manuscript. At one side, as in so many of his rooms, was a miniature fireplace. In the slightly dark room a luminous rectable glowed like moonlight in the hearth of the fireplace. We exclaimed at its beauty. \n\n&#039;Yes,&quot; said Cummings, &quot;And at night it lets down a parcel of moonlight&quot;\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/ParcelofMoonlight\/4282762251.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A Parcel of Moonlight<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">\"Once Cummings allowed us into the small second-floor room where he did his writing. It was quite bare except for straight-backed chars and a table piled with manuscript. At one side, as in so many of his rooms, was a miniature fireplace. In the slightly dark room a luminous rectable glowed like moonlight in the hearth of the fireplace. We exclaimed at its beauty. \n\n'Yes,\" said Cummings, \"And at night it lets down a parcel of moonlight\"<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/Loren-Maciver-Skylight-Moon.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Skylight Moon, 1958, oil on canvas, 127 x 101 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum\" data-caption-desc=\"The skylight of MacIver&#039;s 61 Perry Street apartment served as inspiration for countless paintings. This one focuses on capturing a luminous moon beam, much like the &quot;parcel of moonlight&quot; she wrote about after visiting Cummings&#039; writing room.\" data-attachment-id=\"158\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The skylight of MacIver&#039;s 61 Perry Street apartment served as inspiration for countless paintings. This one focuses on capturing a luminous moon beam, much like the &quot;parcel of moonlight&quot; she wrote about after visiting Cummings&#039; writing room.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/Loren-Maciver-Skylight-Moon\/2216164923.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Skylight Moon, 1958, oil on canvas, 127 x 101 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The skylight of MacIver's 61 Perry Street apartment served as inspiration for countless paintings. This one focuses on capturing a luminous moon beam, much like the \"parcel of moonlight\" she wrote about after visiting Cummings' writing room.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/19.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Moonlight, oil on canvas, 32 x 36&quot;, Private collection\" data-caption-desc=\"This painting is stylistically aligned with MacIver&#039;s work of the late 1940s, and, when viewed alongside her other work, demonstrates the artists versatility and changing style throughout her career. This painting, like &quot;Skylight Moon,&quot; captures a moon-beam traveling into a room. The mystical dream-scape represented by the bed harkens back to MacIver&#039;s interest in the themes of dreaming and sleeping.\" data-attachment-id=\"159\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"This painting is stylistically aligned with MacIver&#039;s work of the late 1940s, and, when viewed alongside her other work, demonstrates the artists versatility and changing style throughout her career. This painting, like &quot;Skylight Moon,&quot; captures a moon-beam traveling into a room. The mystical dream-scape represented by the bed harkens back to MacIver&#039;s interest in the themes of dreaming and sleeping.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/19\/3536303618.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Moonlight, oil on canvas, 32 x 36\", Private collection<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">This painting is stylistically aligned with MacIver's work of the late 1940s, and, when viewed alongside her other work, demonstrates the artists versatility and changing style throughout her career. This painting, like \"Skylight Moon,\" captures a moon-beam traveling into a room. The mystical dream-scape represented by the bed harkens back to MacIver's interest in the themes of dreaming and sleeping.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/telescope.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Telescope sketch\" data-caption-desc=\"In this simple sketch of a telescope, likely intended for a painting, MacIver&#039;s focus on depicting moonbeams is again illuminated in the &quot;shafts of moonlight&quot; which she writes beneath the telescope.\" data-attachment-id=\"226\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"In this simple sketch of a telescope, likely intended for a painting, MacIver&#039;s focus on depicting moonbeams is again illuminated in the &quot;shafts of moonlight&quot; which she writes beneath the telescope.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/telescope\/1491743105.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Telescope sketch<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">In this simple sketch of a telescope, likely intended for a painting, MacIver's focus on depicting moonbeams is again illuminated in the \"shafts of moonlight\" which she writes beneath the telescope.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/Mrs.Moonlight.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Mrs. Moonlight\" data-caption-desc=\"Above this sketch for a painting of a front door illuminated by moonlight is the quote: &quot;Mrs. Moonlight scrubbing the steps of no. 9,&quot; a reference to Joyce&#039;s &quot;Ulysses.&quot;\" data-attachment-id=\"212\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Above this sketch for a painting of a front door illuminated by moonlight is the quote: &quot;Mrs. Moonlight scrubbing the steps of no. 9,&quot; a reference to Joyce&#039;s &quot;Ulysses.&quot;\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/Mrs_Moonlight\/66347248.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Mrs. Moonlight<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Above this sketch for a painting of a front door illuminated by moonlight is the quote: \"Mrs. Moonlight scrubbing the steps of no. 9,\" a reference to Joyce's \"Ulysses.\"<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/Wildequote.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Gutter sketch\" data-caption-desc=\"A sketch of a moonlit bottle in a gutter, with the Oscar Wilde quote &quot;We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars&quot; beneath.\" data-attachment-id=\"227\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A sketch of a moonlit bottle in a gutter, with the Oscar Wilde quote &quot;We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars&quot; beneath.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/Wildequote\/3784955341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Gutter sketch<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A sketch of a moonlit bottle in a gutter, with the Oscar Wilde quote \"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars\" beneath.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/moonswine-1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Moon&#039;s Wine--Bordeaux\" data-caption-desc=\"A note from 1964, during MacIver&#039;s time abroad in France.\" data-attachment-id=\"225\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A note from 1964, during MacIver&#039;s time abroad in France.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/moonswine-1\/1643484746.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Moon's Wine--Bordeaux<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A note from 1964, during MacIver's time abroad in France.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/03\/April1968-1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"&quot;The shadows at this time are so clear and pale azure, they look like moonlight in broad daylight&quot;\" data-caption-desc=\"A note from April 24, 1968 (also during MacIver&#039;s time in France)\" data-attachment-id=\"224\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A note from April 24, 1968 (also during MacIver&#039;s time in France)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/cache\/2019\/03\/April1968-1\/761778676.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">\"The shadows at this time are so clear and pale azure, they look like moonlight in broad daylight\"<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A note from April 24, 1968 (also during MacIver's time in France)<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><strong>anyone lived in a pretty how town<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"page__title title\">E. E. Cummings<\/h3>\n<div class=\"view view-poems view-id-poems view-display-id-poem_author_dob_dod view-dom-id-19c8c2dbf612b0b80fddb9dbfb638dfd\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last clearfix\">\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-nothing\">\n<div class=\"o-vr o-vr_12x\">\n<div class=\"c-feature\">\n<div class=\"c-feature-bd\">\n<div class=\"o-poem isActive\" data-view=\"PoemView\">\n<div>anyone lived in a pretty how town<\/div>\n<div>(with up so floating many bells down)<\/div>\n<div>spring summer autumn winter<\/div>\n<div>he sang his didn\u2019t he danced his did.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Women and men(both little and small)<\/div>\n<div>cared for anyone not at all<\/div>\n<div>they sowed their isn\u2019t they reaped their same<\/div>\n<div>sun moon stars rain<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>children guessed(but only a few<\/div>\n<div>and down they forgot as up they grew<\/div>\n<div>autumn winter spring summer)<\/div>\n<div>that noone loved him more by more<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>when by now and tree by leaf<\/div>\n<div>she laughed his joy she cried his grief<\/div>\n<div>bird by snow and stir by still<\/div>\n<div>anyone\u2019s any was all to her<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>someones married their everyones<\/div>\n<div>laughed their cryings and did their dance<\/div>\n<div>(sleep wake hope and then)they<\/div>\n<div>said their nevers they slept their dream<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>stars rain sun moon<\/div>\n<div>(and only the snow can begin to explain<\/div>\n<div>how children are apt to forget to remember<\/div>\n<div>with up so floating many bells down)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>one day anyone died i guess<\/div>\n<div>(and noone stooped to kiss his face)<\/div>\n<div>busy folk buried them side by side<\/div>\n<div>little by little and was by was<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>all by all and deep by deep<\/div>\n<div>and more by more they dream their sleep<\/div>\n<div>noone and anyone earth by april<\/div>\n<div>wish by spirit and if by yes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Women and men(both dong and ding)<\/div>\n<div>summer autumn winter spring<\/div>\n<div>reaped their sowing and went their came<\/div>\n<div>sun moon stars rain<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"view view-poems view-id-poems view-display-id-poem_author_dob_dod view-dom-id-19c8c2dbf612b0b80fddb9dbfb638dfd\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last clearfix\">\n<div>\n<p>The above poem, perhaps Cummings\u2019 best known, is quoted in several places throughout MacIver\u2019s sketches. I found this an especially well suited poem for this theme not only because of MacIver\u2019s wonderful handwritten note about seeing the \u201cparcel of moonlight\u201d in Cummings\u2019 writing room. In the poem, the refrain \u201csun moon stars rain\u201d positions the moon as a sign of the broader, dependable passing of time guided by natural forces, upon which the measure of human existence is made. This is an especially literary way of interpreting the moon, and one that is alienated from its physical appearance. Looking at this poem beside \u201cSkylight Moon\u201d or \u201cMoonlight,\u201d you can see the\u00a0 ways in which artists who were friends and bound within the same general moment in time can both depict the same theme in a ways so different that each could not be fully articulated by the other\u2019s medium. While Cummings\u2019 poem shows the moon in a way that perhaps could only be shown in words, MacIver represents the moon in ways which cannot be expressed with words alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last clearfix\">\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-nothing\">\n<div class=\"o-vr o-vr_12x\">\n<div class=\"c-feature\">\n<div class=\"c-feature-bd\">\n<div class=\"o-poem isActive\" data-view=\"PoemView\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-grid\">\n<div class=\"o-grid-col o-grid-col_10of12\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the examples below show more explicit representations of the celestial body itself, the moon is somewhat omnipresent throughout much of MacIver\u2019s work. Its subtle glow and beam are captured in her luminous representations of city lights, cracks in the pavement, Parisian trees, and all sorts of luminous everyday objects.\u00a0 The essence of the moon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2136,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/loren-maciver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}