{"id":3867,"date":"2026-05-16T01:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=3867"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:50:50","slug":"abbott-meader-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/abbott-meader-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Meader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Meader-Abbott-Out-of-a-Clear-Blue-Sky.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3869\" style=\"width:938px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Meader-Abbott-Out-of-a-Clear-Blue-Sky.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Meader-Abbott-Out-of-a-Clear-Blue-Sky-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2026\/02\/Meader-Abbott-Out-of-a-Clear-Blue-Sky-768x515.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Abbott Meader, <em>Out of a Clear Blue Sky<\/em>, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 in., 2014\u201315.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>My wife Nancy and I had paddled our canoe to a place on the Messalonskee Stream, nearby in Oakland, where we would gather fiddlehead ferns in the spring. While we did so, an immense cloud formation was building up before us. It was a powerful and dramatic structure, complex and evolving. I sensed it almost as though it were a living presence. Light seemed to come from within, and its areas of color changed gradually as it slowly churned its way across the clear, blue, sunlit sky. The painting that you see here is both a recollection and an invention. It blends the memory of a visual experience with the strong emotional impact I felt while experiencing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife Nancy and I had paddled our canoe to a place on the Messalonskee Stream, nearby in Oakland, where we would gather fiddlehead ferns in the spring. While we did so, an immense cloud formation was building up before us. It was a powerful and dramatic structure, complex and evolving. I sensed it almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19412,"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\/3867"}],"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\/19412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3867\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}