{"id":3857,"date":"2026-08-17T19:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:33:04","slug":"pizza-and-basketball-still-life-above-john-doughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/pizza-and-basketball-still-life-above-john-doughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza and basketball still life above John Doughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was wandering around Tralee after dinner on my recent trip to Ireland, when I noticed this big pizza slice hanging outside a second story window. As you can see from the sign, it’s a restaurant named “John Doughs,” and when I look up the website<\/a>, I wonder if this is the backside of the building, as the signage at the entrance looks totally different from this. I should add that I didn’t go in, I just had my attention captured by a large pizza slice suspended in the air (I love pizza).<\/p>\n

But if you look closely at the window to the right of the pizza slice above, you’ll see something else. This is what really captured my attention: it’s almost like the window frames some sort of basketball still life. As you can see below, there are 5 basketballs with a fluorescent light bulb sticking up between them. It’s almost like a mash-up of a Jeff Koons piece<\/a> with a Dan Flavin light sculpture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Basketball “still life” in a 2nd story window in Tralee, Ireland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maybe this window opens into a room that has nothing to do with the John Doughs restaurant, I just found it amusing that two of my favorite things – basketball and pizza – were captured right next to each other in a somewhat surrealist manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was wandering around Tralee after dinner on my recent trip to Ireland, when I noticed this big pizza slice hanging outside a second story window. As you can see from the sign, it’s a restaurant named “John Doughs,” and when I look up the website, I wonder if this is the backside of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48,50],"tags":[932,933,910,406,931],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-found-art","category-street-photography","category-travel-explore","tag-baskeball","tag-dan-flavin","tag-ireland","tag-jeff-koons","tag-tralee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}