{"id":14064,"date":"2017-12-13T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14064"},"modified":"2017-12-13T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:49:04","slug":"rineke-dijkstra-julie-den-haag-netherlands-february-29-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14064","title":{"rendered":"RINEKE DIJKSTRA: JULIE, DEN HAAG, NETHERLANDS, FEBRUARY 29, 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>From the artist\u2019s New Mothers series. Chromogenic color print.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The shock of sudden motherhood<br \/>\nflares Julie\u2019s face like fireworks<\/p>\n<p>willowing. A single hour<br \/>\npost-delivery, her infant\u2019s skin<\/p>\n<p>still burns with birth, the crimson<br \/>\noffset by mother\u2019s pale exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>Their dual nudity caffeinates the frame.<br \/>\nHow did she cull the strength to stand<\/p>\n<p>before the camera? Must be her first time<br \/>\nholding baby\u2014any baby?\u2014the way<\/p>\n<p>she smashes the thing to her body<br \/>\nlike ill-positioned groceries\u2014<\/p>\n<p>jumble of soup cans, milk, and melons<br \/>\nshe will not drop no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if that little mouth can breathe.<br \/>\nBut this is what a mother does, a mother<\/p>\n<p>holds. Even caught in labor\u2019s daze<br \/>\nI knew to call my squirming howl<\/p>\n<p><em>Beautiful, so beautiful\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>before oceans of hands swept my son<br \/>\nonto a metal tray to measure things.<\/p>\n<p>My husband watched his eyelashes<br \/>\nunfurl. Then, gratitude,<\/p>\n<p>a new kind of female gratitude,<br \/>\nfor the nurse who knew to find me<\/p>\n<p>two cups of strawberry ice cream<br \/>\nI consumed with a miniature paddle,<\/p>\n<p>loving each slide of sweetness,<br \/>\nmy legs earthquaking under the blankets.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14033\">LAUREN GOODWIN SLAUGHTER<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the artist\u2019s New Mothers series. Chromogenic color print. The shock of sudden motherhood flares Julie\u2019s face like fireworks willowing. A single hour post-delivery, her infant\u2019s skin still burns with birth, the crimson offset by mother\u2019s pale exhaustion. Their dual nudity caffeinates the frame. How did she cull the strength to stand before the camera? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3EQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14066,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions\/14066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}