{"id":13473,"date":"2009-04-05T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T16:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2009-04-05T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T18:50:13","slug":"water-vesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/photo-of-the-day\/water-vesta\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Vesta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The eternal pot of water boiling on the stove, winter 2008-2009. Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the things I’ll miss about winter is boiling water on the stove. I kept a pot going pretty much around the clock, whether I was at home or at work, between November and March. I have forced air heat, which is dry and which lacks a radiant source. To compensate for both, I boil a large pot of water. It adds moisture to the air and creates a place that is hot, where the heat actually emanates from. This is the pot in my studio; the one at home is about twice the size. I am sure I bioled away more than 300 gallons of water like this; the pot needs to be refilled at least daily. I would leave it going when leaving for short times; and not for longer times, so this took some planning. It became a kind of Vestal ritual: something involving maintaining a hearth around the clock. I developed a fascination with these pots of\u0412\u00a0 simmering and boiling water, partiuclarly the way the heat and energy accumulate inside the thing, then radiate outward. Sometimes I would let the minerals gather for weeks, then scrub the vessel out. I would be fascinated by the smell of the water and the steam and the ambiance created by having this central point of fire\/water in my space. After a while I started to connect it to my Moon conjunct Vesta in Aquarius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I’ll miss about winter is boiling water on the stove. I kept a pot going pretty much around the clock, whether I was at home or at work, between November and March. I have forced air heat, which is dry and which lacks a radiant source. To compensate for both, I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[948],"tags":[52,1801,931],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}