{"id":86,"date":"2022-07-19T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danortega.art\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:03:32","slug":"howl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danortega.art\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Howl at the Planet that Forgot Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1283\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/howl-e1752793685818.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/howl-e1752793685818.png 1283w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/howl-e1752793685818-821x1024.png 821w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/howl-e1752793685818-768x958.png 768w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/howl-e1752793685818-1232x1536.png 1232w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/howl-e1752793685818-300x374.png 300w, https:\/\/danortega.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/howl-e1752793685818-850x1060.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1283px) 100vw, 1283px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone is howling, whether they realize it or not.  Acrylic on canvas  60 x 48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cHowl at the Planet That Forgot Us\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not a painting of a creature, nor a planet, nor a night sky. It is a confession. I did not paint it\u2014I merely uncovered it layer by layer from beneath the skin of an ordinary canvas, like a birthmark emerging through time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The horned shape is <em>The Witness<\/em>, a being who once howled soundlessly at the first moon, long before moons knew how to orbit. Its eye is a wound that never closes, black and circular, absorbing all memories of names. Some say The Witness was humanity\u2019s shadow, cast backwards through time by a mistake we haven\u2019t made yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The glowing orb in the upper right is not a planet. It is a punctuation mark left behind by a language so old it eroded itself into silence. It drifts through the void repeating a single syllable no throat can form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People ask me, \u201cWhy is the sky so textured, so full of purples and bruises?\u201d I tell them: <em>that\u2019s not sky<\/em>. That is the interior of a buried thought, and we are looking up from the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hang this piece in a room where no clocks are allowed. You\u2019ll know why eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is howling, whether they realize it or not. Acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 \u201cHowl at the Planet That Forgot Us\u201d This is not a painting of a creature, nor a planet, nor a night sky. It is a confession. 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