{"id":1702,"date":"2020-06-07T16:34:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T23:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2020-06-07T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T02:42:09","slug":"reconstructed-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/2020\/06\/reconstructed-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructed Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>My piece explores the gray realm of memory, how it is impossible to preserve a past perfectly despite one&#8217;s commitment to accuracy. Amidst the plethora of internal voices and feelings, memories are constantly dissolved, reconstructed, and forged. When I revisit Kathmandu through the printing of photos and the watching of captured moments, I wondered how would I find my voice, which truth would I want to stick to.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The chosen visual method displays distance; like many travel videos, where only selected good things are displayed, my voice of discontentment, fear, and frustration is hidden and suppressed. I chose to only display the friendships made as the intangible and humanly connections have proven to be the most influential in my conscious reconstruction of Kathmandu. Due to a personal feeling of gratitude and the shortness expected of one&#8217;s answer to the question, &#8220;How was your trip?&#8221;, I couldn&#8217;t display a deeper sense of discontentment to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Reconstructed Truths: Kathmandu\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dh355im69PA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My piece explores the gray realm of memory, how it is impossible to preserve a past perfectly despite one&#8217;s commitment to accuracy. Amidst the plethora of internal voices and feelings, memories are constantly dissolved, reconstructed, and forged. When I revisit Kathmandu through the printing of photos and the watching of captured moments, I wondered how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}