{"id":3665,"date":"2013-07-20T13:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/every-year-the-sudden-proliferation-of-buttercups\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:40:17","slug":"every-year-the-sudden-proliferation-of-buttercups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/every-year-the-sudden-proliferation-of-buttercups\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3665 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/every-year-the-sudden-proliferation-of-buttercups\/attachment\/3666\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao2_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/every-year-the-sudden-proliferation-of-buttercups\/attachment\/3667\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/every-year-the-sudden-proliferation-of-buttercups\/attachment\/3669\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao3_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mq8l7mMHsI1qcztaao3_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Every year the sudden proliferation of buttercups heralds the coming of summer, and every year I&rsquo;m seized by some weird artist-hoarder&rsquo;s compulsion to harvest them all, as if I could somehow capture this time, this feeling; this strange, rich light that pours down on the world like honey. Irish summers are so fleeting. I thought maybe I could use the flowers somehow &#8211; perhaps draw with the pollen like yellow chalk, or just make some kind of installation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year I actually gave in to that vague, futile impulse and went and sat in a field for hours, patiently decapitating buttercups, and adding them to a little pile that never really seemed to get any bigger. I carried them inside in a cardboard box and they have just been quietly wilting under the stairs for over a month now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know what the moral of this story is.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the sudden proliferation of buttercups heralds the coming of summer, and every year I&rsquo;m seized by some weird artist-hoarder&rsquo;s compulsion to harvest them all, as if I could somehow capture this time, this feeling; this strange, rich light that pours down on the world like honey. Irish summers are so fleeting. 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