{"id":3845,"date":"2026-05-18T13:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=3845"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:20:06","slug":"maury-colton-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/maury-colton-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Maury Colton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-20.12.21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-20.12.21.png 980w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-20.12.21-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-20.12.21-768x599.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maury Colton, <em>Night Writing<\/em>, acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14 in., 2025.&nbsp;<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This particular painting, <em>Night Writing,<\/em> has its basis in reading Henry David Thoreau\u2019s <em>Expeditions to the Maine Woods<\/em>. Thoreau &nbsp;was a keen observer of nature in all its ways. On one particular occasion, he had the surprise of waking up to the remnants of a nighttime campfire. He observed the glowing end of a charcoal log. He was delighted to observe this phenomenon, as he had always heard of such a phosphorescence (decaying moose-wood), but had never witnessed it before. His guide, Joe Polis, told him what his Penobscot ancestors had said: in ancient times, these glowing images would travel among the trees. This anecdote is the incubator of the series <em>Night Writing<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This particular painting, Night Writing, has its basis in reading Henry David Thoreau\u2019s Expeditions to the Maine Woods. Thoreau &nbsp;was a keen observer of nature in all its ways. On one particular occasion, he had the surprise of waking up to the remnants of a nighttime campfire. He observed the glowing end of a charcoal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17810,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3845\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}