{"id":19656,"date":"2022-03-21T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=19656"},"modified":"2022-03-20T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:55:28","slug":"fine-art-fables-why-the-sun-and-the-moon-live-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/03\/21\/fine-art-fables-why-the-sun-and-the-moon-live-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Art Fables: Why The Sun and the Moon live in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19657\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FIne-Art-Fables.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FIne-Art-Fables.png 750w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FIne-Art-Fables-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>This short Nigerian folktale explains, quite obviously by its title, why the sun and the moon live in the sky. The story was officially published in 1910<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by the British colonial official, Elphinstone Dayrell. However, as we know from the Brothers Grimm and other fairytale publications, the oral traditions of the story are actually much older.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this tale, the sun, moon, and water are personified. The sun and moon are married, and are friends with water. They all lived on earth together. However, water could never visit the house of the sun and moon because their home was not big enough. The sun promised to build a large compound where water would be able to visit. So, when water came, the house was filled with water, forcing the sun and the moon to the rooftop, and then into the sky where they have remained ever since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I decided to create a piece that focuses on the personifications of the sun and the moon characters of this folktale being forced into the sky. Therefore, their bodies are perched in the heavens high above the ocean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19658\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled-Artwork-767x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled-Artwork-767x1024.png 767w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled-Artwork-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled-Artwork-768x1025.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This short Nigerian folktale explains, quite obviously by its title, why the sun and the moon live in the sky. The story was officially published in 1910 in Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa, by the British colonial official, Elphinstone Dayrell. However, as we know from the Brothers Grimm and other fairytale publications, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19660,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions\/19660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}