{"id":631,"date":"2023-04-11T18:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danortega.art\/?p=631"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:26:59","slug":"its-what-you-think-derivative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s What You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1395\" src=\"https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964.png 1600w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964-1024x893.png 1024w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964-768x670.png 768w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964-1536x1339.png 1536w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964-300x262.png 300w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964-850x741.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/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>\u201cIt\u2019s What You Think\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once every eleven centuries, the sand beneath Thought Mountain ripens and births a Watcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His name cannot be spoken, only whistled backward through a rusted harmonica. His job is to balance the three hemispheres of Perception: the Red Eye of Rage, the Green Eye of Regret, and the Blue Coil of Really Bad Ideas. Each time a traveler passes by and says, \u201cWhat is <em>that<\/em> thing?\u201d, the Watcher answers by blinking out a different universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here\u2019s the catch: he\u2019s powered entirely by misplaced certainty. The stronger your belief that you understand him, the more circuitry he steals from your assumptions. Many pilgrims arrive with cameras, journals, or algorithms. None leave with the same shape of brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the day this image was taken, the Watcher had just consumed the notion of &#8220;parallel parking&#8221; and was digesting the color mauve. His antennae twitched with satisfaction. His central furnace (formerly a child\u2019s solar system project) glowed with melted yes\/no questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To behold him is to have your thoughts re-wired using spare parts from forgotten tools and embarrassing memories. You\u2019ll still recognize yourself\u2014just slightly to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He exists only to remind you that it <em>is<\/em> what you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFT on OpenSea, contact me if you&#8217;re interested \u201cIt\u2019s What You Think\u201d Once every eleven centuries, the sand beneath Thought Mountain ripens and births a Watcher. This is one of them. His name cannot be spoken, only whistled backward through a rusted harmonica. His job is to balance the three hemispheres of Perception: the Red&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":989,"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-631","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\/Its-what-you-think-derivative-e1752794251964.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}