{"id":155,"date":"2026-05-03T21:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/?p=155"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:50:50","slug":"smell-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/new-media\/smell-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Quinn \u2014 The Smell of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Smell of Winter<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shannon Quinn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vol. 10, Issue 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Smell of Winter is an invitation to abandon some of the constraints we place around the meaning of love, to risk welcoming expressions of defiance and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-1-1 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Smell of Winter\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1185739920?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artist Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As an artist, I am interested in how language manifests in images along with the dialogue of whispers, echoes and contradictions it creates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an expansiveness to how images have power to change the tone and rhythm of a poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, I look for inflection points where vulnerability is revealed. I am hopeful that what might be uncomfortable can still be viewed with empathy.In my work I frequently return to themes of devotion, water and breath which is to say birth\u2014the arrival of a shared experience, the movement from isolation to connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smell of Winter Shannon Quinn Vol. 10, Issue 1 The Smell of Winter is an invitation to abandon some of the constraints we place around the meaning of love, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/ponderreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}