{"id":3805,"date":"2026-06-24T00:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:44:20","slug":"emerald-drifter-cig-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Drifter &#8211; Cig Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3806\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GoldRoad2023\u00a9CigHarvey.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3806\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GoldRoad2023\u00a9CigHarvey.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold Road \u00a9 Cig Harvey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3809\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cig_Harvey_MadeleineBlue_021.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3809\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cig_Harvey_MadeleineBlue_021.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madeleine &amp; Blue \u00a9 Cig Harvey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">NEW YORKER Magazine Newsletter April 19, 2025, article by Ocean Vuong <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">about the photography of Cig Harvey in <strong>Emerald Drifter<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8220;. . . <strong>Emerald Drifter<\/strong> is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies, where all the senses encounter the world. Viewing these images brings to mind an anecdote I once heard and think of often in relation to art: French colonizers, upon arriving in Vietnam in the nineteenth century, were aghast to see gold-clad Buddhas and stupas, porcelain and jade vases and statues, left in the open air, for anyone, even beggars, to touch. How can a people\u2019s finest enaction of craft be left so unguarded, they wondered. Quickly, the conquerors dislodged these treasures and locked them in vaults to be sent back to the empire\u2019s capital and displayed in museums as \u201crelics.\u201d What does it mean to be so frightened by beauty\u2019s power that it must then be plundered and removed, caged? I\u2019ve seen psychological research suggesting that, for some communities in Asia, the touching of religious artifacts has medicinal results that rival the effects of psychotropic drugs. In other words, it reaffirms what artists have known for centuries, and what Harvey so deftly reveals to us here: that beauty, despite being degraded by commerce, or shunned as merely decorous, feminine fussing, heals.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORKER Magazine Newsletter April 19, 2025, article by Ocean Vuong about the photography of Cig Harvey in Emerald Drifter &#8220;. . . Emerald Drifter is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies, where all the senses encounter the world. Viewing these images brings to mind an anecdote I once heard and think of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emerald Drifter &#8211; Cig Harvey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}