{"id":6268,"date":"2011-12-09T23:39:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2012-02-04T12:44:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:44:53","slug":"a-murmur-of-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=6268","title":{"rendered":"a murmur of uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"middle\" valign=\"bottom\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1322510908murmurshalf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6269\" title=\"1322510908murmurshalf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1322510908murmurshalf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>December\u00a03, 2011\u00a0\u2013\u00a0January 28, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, December 10, 2:30\u20135:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>GALLERY ARCTURUS<\/strong><br \/>\n80 Gerrard Street East<br \/>\nToronto, ON M5B 1G6<br \/>\nT: 416 977 1077<br \/>\nF: 416 977 1066<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:info@arcturus.ca\">info@arcturus.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcturus.ca\/\">www.arcturus.ca<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Tues-Fri 12- 5:30; Sat 11-5:30pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does real change begin?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nYou may have seen starlings, gathered together<br \/>\nin one place.<br \/>\nThey are full of agitation, each bird<br \/>\nexpressing itself individually.<br \/>\nThen, suddenly, they rise up and fly as one,<br \/>\nan agreed departure,<br \/>\na movement like the breath, expanding out and in,<br \/>\na murmuration of starlings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNow we are a murmur of uncertainty.<br \/>\nWe know we have lost our way.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhat does it mean to be human?<br \/>\nPerhaps we are looking for the question<br \/>\nthat will release us from the prisons we have created,<br \/>\nto fly as one, an agreed departure, a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>murmurs of uncertainty<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a deep persistent hum<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the flutter of a thousand wings<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 summoning a question<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>works which somehow reflect these words by<\/p>\n<p><strong>jason ford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>deborah harris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">R.M. Vaughan wrote in Saturday&#8217;s Globe: &#8220;Chock full of spectral figures and haloed after-images, this sensual group show looks exactly the way late afternoons in January feel \u2013 haunted and striving to hold the light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 3, 2011 \u2013 January 28, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, December 10, 2:30\u20135:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY ARCTURUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Works from <strong>Jason Ford and Deborah Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=6268\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}