{"id":23014,"date":"2023-04-06T17:43:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=23014"},"modified":"2023-04-06T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T21:45:20","slug":"the-jukebox-the-body-is-a-blade-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/04\/06\/the-jukebox-the-body-is-a-blade-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jukebox: The Body is a Blade (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23015 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artsink10-173x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artsink10-173x300.png 173w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artsink10-768x1331.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artsink10-591x1024.png 591w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artsink10.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics continued from last week, &#8220;The Body is a Blade&#8221; by\u00a0<em>Japanese Breakfast.\u00a0<\/em>I think the lyrics in this song convey a lot in a few words. A message that tells the listener to trust the power they hold. I was especially drawn to the titular line &#8216;the body is a blade&#8217;, a reference to Ocean Vuong&#8217;s poem &#8220;Headfirst&#8221;. Though in the original poem, it&#8217;s used in almost in a malicious way, suggesting one&#8217;s body is a weapon to do harm onto others. Here,\u00a0<em>Japanese Breakfast<\/em> talks about the body as a tool to carry you through the difficulties of life. To visualize these lyrics I wanted to show a character&#8217;s internal struggles as walking through a field of tall grass. Overwhelming and all consuming, it must feel like there&#8217;s no way out. But the act of moving away from the thought of giving up and choosing to move forward allows the body to literally act as a blade, making a new path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics continued from last week, &#8220;The Body is a Blade&#8221; by\u00a0Japanese Breakfast.\u00a0I think the lyrics in this song convey a lot in a few words. A message that tells the listener to trust the power they hold. I was especially drawn to the titular line &#8216;the body is a blade&#8217;, a reference to Ocean Vuong&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2253,"featured_media":20592,"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\/23014"}],"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\/2253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23017,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23014\/revisions\/23017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}