{"id":11156,"date":"2023-10-15T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/contest-illustration\/the-snail-covered-his-eyes-well-with-wax\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:53:38","slug":"the-snail-covered-his-eyes-well-with-wax","status":"publish","type":"contest-illustration","link":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/contest-illustration\/the-snail-covered-his-eyes-well-with-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"The snail covered his eyes well with wax"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":7061,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","description":"<p>Finding their source of inspiration in other forms of creation (cinematography, respectively literature), the works \"Nostalgia\" and \"The snail closed its eyes well with wax\" were articulated around a theme of identity. Personal experiences and feelings are reflected in the characters depicted in the two works. Loneliness becomes a leitmotif for my creation, which I approach from multiple perspectives, exploring various instantiations of loneliness, associated with different ages and affective states. \"The snail closed its eyes well with wax\" refers to the text of the same name by Marin Sorescu:   <\/p>\n<p>\u201eThe snail closed its eyes well<br\/>With wax,<br\/>He put his head in his chest<br\/>And he stares<br\/>Within himself.<\/p>\n<p>Above him<br\/>Is the shell<br\/>His perfect creation<br\/>That he abhors -<\/p>\n<p>Around the shell<br\/>Is the world,<br\/>The rest of the world,<br\/>Placed back and forth<br\/>According to certain laws<br\/><br\/>And in the centre of this<br\/>Universal hatred<br\/>He finds himself -<br\/>The snail,<br\/>That he abhors.\u201d<\/p>\n"},"contest_tag":[930,974,1022],"contest_year":[491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest-illustration\/11156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest-illustration"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contest-illustration"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contest_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest_tag?post=11156"},{"taxonomy":"contest_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthforromania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest_year?post=11156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}