{"id":148,"date":"2019-06-13T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/?p=148"},"modified":"2021-05-01T02:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T02:45:16","slug":"not-so-thin-georgia-okeefes-black-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/not-so-thin-georgia-okeefes-black-crosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Thin: Georgia O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Black Crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cI saw the crosses so often\u2014and often in unexpected places\u2014like a thin dark veil of the Catholic Church spread over the New Mexico landscape,\u201d said Georgia O\u2019Keeffe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t fully grasp O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s meaning at first. I was not in New Mexico. I was at home in Texas, seated at my desk with a roof over my head and a fresh demitasse of espresso in my hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But yesterday, while walking the ruins of the Franciscan mission in the Jemez Pueblo, I understood the abstract O\u2019Keeffe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the bright New Mexico sun, I saw the dark veil. It was spread over the broken ground and hung from the crumbling walls of the nave and sacristy. And I think I saw something of its shadow in the faces of the Gisewa Indians who work at the historic site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/46327\/black-cross-new-mexico\">paintings of the black crosses<\/a> of Taos have a spirituality about them that can be difficult to articulate. Much of her work is that way. 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