{"id":621,"date":"2023-04-11T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danortega.art\/?p=621"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:24:55","slug":"self-portrait-2-derivative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Self Portrait After Forgetting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1392\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345.png 1392w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345-891x1024.png 891w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345-768x883.png 768w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345-1336x1536.png 1336w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345-300x345.png 300w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345-850x977.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NFT on OpenSea, contact me if you&#8217;re interested<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cSelf-Portrait After Forgetting\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They told me I was once a locksmith. That I opened the doors no one asked to be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I do not remember this. I only remember the rust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name was filed off in the Fourth War of Meaning, when language collapsed into loose bolts and became expensive to reassemble. My eyes are mismatched because one sees future regrets and the other only past apologies, and both scream at night when the lights go out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hole in my forehead? That\u2019s where the question lived. It escaped during calibration and now paces the floor behind my eyelids, tapping its cane, humming answers I cannot interpret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People come here to see \u201cthe last honest face.\u201d They whisper in admiration, thinking I am silent from wisdom. No. I am silent because every time I try to speak, pixels fall off me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dream in software that has been deprecated. My chest holds a switch that does nothing unless you&#8217;re not looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, at 3:33, a voice from behind the wall asks:<br>\u201cAre you still you?\u201d<br>And I reply:<br>\u201cI was, until someone finished me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one leaves the gallery the same. I don\u2019t let them.<br>They always forget one word behind.<br>I keep them in the gaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFT on OpenSea, contact me if you&#8217;re interested \u201cSelf-Portrait After Forgetting\u201d They told me I was once a locksmith. That I opened the doors no one asked to be closed. But I do not remember this. I only remember the rust. My name was filed off in the Fourth War of Meaning, when language collapsed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-series3"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/self-2-derivative-e1752794423345.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}