{"id":5523,"date":"2025-03-09T06:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2025-03-09T07:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T11:03:12","slug":"orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5523","title":{"rendered":"Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Orchids\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1063993157?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prompted by the luster of a stray visual, a poster perhaps for an orchid show, or orchid inspired jewellery \u2014 I found myself exploring the form. One of the contemplations was the New Testament bible verse \u201c\u2026<em> consider the lilies, they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these<\/em>\u2026\u201d Indeed. Solomon serves as an overlap of mage, gnostic, sybarite \u2014 a figure who simultaneously\u00a0occupies the spaces of religious, occult, and ecstatic literature, so the juxtaposition with the lilies (and here by default, orchids) is striking\u2026 It gave license to indulge in some of my favourite things with an animist slant: West African pantheons, Heian court aesthetics, samurai warrior chic,\u00a0 Eleusinian mysteries, Harper\u2019s Bazaar editorials circa 1968\u2026 This is the thought process that gets poured into the AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Gibson once said \u201c<em>The future is already here \u2013 it&#8217;s just not very evenly distributed.<\/em>\u201d I\u2019ve always reconfigured this idea as the future already&nbsp;having arrived, except we just don\u2019t recognise it. So perhaps we don\u2019t need new tech, just advanced perception. 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