In San Francisco I was ignored or harassed as homeless when I got the pins and needles and sat in half lotus or lied down in the street.<\/p>\n
In Los Angeles, the sidewalk was so dirty and full of glass that I wouldn’t lie down, but I huddled shirtless on the curb and no one paid me any notice.<\/p>\n
In New York, as soon as I feel the symptoms coming on I have been popping out of the studio to sit on the sidewalk.\u00c2\u00a0 The studio is in the prime Chelsea art district.\u00c2\u00a0 When I sit in half lotus in front of gallery row, people slow and look.\u00c2\u00a0 They are mostly wondering why a man in a t-shirt is sitting in a yoga pose in 30 degree weather.\u00c2\u00a0 But some of them stop dead in their tracks, and contemplate me… AS IF I WERE A WORK OF ART!\u00c2\u00a0 I swear someone almost reached for their camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In San Francisco I was ignored or harassed as homeless when I got the pins and needles and sat in half lotus or lied down in the street. In Los Angeles, the sidewalk was so dirty and full of glass that I wouldn’t lie down, but I huddled shirtless on the curb and no one … Continue reading I am an Artwork<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,56,8,50],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-brooklyn","tag-funny","tag-meditation","tag-pins-and-needles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}