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\"Sonja<\/a>

Sonja Singing in the Tub by Suzanne Larson<\/p><\/div>\n

Today’s post comes from the Renewal\u00a0exhibit at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City: Matthew Moore’s response to Suzanne Larson’s “Sonja Singing in the Tub.”\u00a0You can see all the visual works and literary responses at the\u00a0UCCC through April 25. Read our profile on Suzanne Larson in the December 2007 edition of 15 Bytes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sonja<\/h3>\n

At first it is the lipstick on the placid pig that catches the eye. The sparse luxury of an ordinary bathroom dominates your senses before you recognize the simple serenity of a satisfied porcine. Soaking in pink-hued bath bubbles, themselves at once shining pearls and muted licentious candy, the bathing pig pampers itself.\u00a0 The pink walls are gilded with frivolity.\u00a0 While the bubble bath relaxes the happy subject, the bristles on the loofah brush tickle it, until ultimately the pig\u2019s personality prevails.<\/p>\n

She thinks not of stress from a long day, but rather about the joy of her present state.\u00a0 Clean hooves and clear mind. Next to a clamshell sink, her soft pink towel awaits.\u00a0 In a bathroom lit by two distal bulbs, one wonders what the shadows will look like on her face as she gazes into the mirror mirror on the wall. She will not see her reflection today though, she will only feel the effervescent bath water and see the moisture build as fog over a quiet room, \u201cfour legs or wings are friends,\u201d she thinks. \u00a0In a box with frosted glass, pink and ivory stand in contrast to the bright red lips of the bathing porcine.<\/p>\n

In an eggshell tub, near a seashell sink, this porcine soaks. Such is the beauty of Sonja: pretty in pink with no future nor past, her memory holds true, relaxing in bath.<\/p>\n

by Matthew Moore<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s post comes from the Renewal\u00a0exhibit at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City: Matthew Moore’s response to Suzanne Larson’s “Sonja Singing in the Tub.”\u00a0You can see all the visual works and literary responses at the\u00a0UCCC through April 25. Read our profile on Suzanne Larson in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[606],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","tag-suzanne-larson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/34.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 07:57:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71271,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/71271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}