{"id":35046,"date":"2019-12-06T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=35046"},"modified":"2019-12-03T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T00:31:22","slug":"mia-bergeron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/mia-bergeron\/","title":{"rendered":"mia bergeron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=35048\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35048\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/miabergeron-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/miabergeron-1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/miabergeron-1-155x1024.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Birthdays&#8221;<\/em> by Chattanooga based painter<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miabergeron.com\/\"> Mia Bergeron<\/a>. I love this project so much! I&#8217;ll let Mia explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Most people don&#8217;t know that I have done self portraits most of my life. In the past years, I have done one on my birthday every year to mark changes in my self, my thoughts, my techniques, and just generally to journal time in the mirror. It&#8217;s a little vulnerable to put some of these up on the Internet, I must say. Not many artists show work from when they were young (and not very skilled!). But when I looked through them all, I realized there were a lot of changes, and those things are worth showing, I guess. Being broke for all of those years, a self- portrait was my way of being curious about form and drawing, without wasting anybody else&#8217;s time. I was not a born draughtsman, as you can see. \u00a0I worked very hard, and fought through a lot of my issues with drawing with dozens upon dozens of sketchbooks filled with horrifying sketches &#8230; I didn&#8217;t paint any self-portraits while I was 23-25, due to my time in Italy studying, and frankly being too enamored with everything around me to care about a mirror. \u00a0In 2017 I got married, so my \u00a0husband appears in the portrait with me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vulnerable, and beautiful. I can&#8217;t wait to see what 38 holds for her. Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Birthdays&#8221; by Chattanooga based painter Mia Bergeron. I love this project so much! I&#8217;ll let Mia explain: &#8220;Most people don&#8217;t know that I have done self portraits most of my life. In the past years, I have done one on my birthday every year to mark changes in my self, my thoughts, my techniques, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35068,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35046\/revisions\/35068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}