{"id":35206,"date":"2020-01-01T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=35206"},"modified":"2019-12-29T05:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T13:29:49","slug":"elisa-valenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/elisa-valenti\/","title":{"rendered":"elisa valenti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=35209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35209\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elisavalenti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elisavalenti.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elisavalenti-34x300.jpg 34w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ah<\/em>, gorgeous! These are the beautiful and empowering paintings of New York based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elisavalentistudio.com\/\">Elisa Valenti<\/a>, and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, the perfect way to kick off 2020. I love her work, and I <em>super duper<\/em> love the reason behind it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I grew up in a time when eating in public was shameful, stomach rolls made you unworthy, and shopping for clothes was traumatic. I grew up before being plus size was normal. My work reflects the images I wish I had seen\u2014beautiful, luscious women doing ordinary things, just like everybody else. They are a reflection of my own battle with body image and my journey to mental health. If you\u2019ve ever been made to feel insignificant, I hope they inspire you to own your image of yourself and never give that power to someone else.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hell, YES! Now<em> that<\/em> is how you start a new decade. Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elisavalentistudio\/\">Elisa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>{Found via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/createmagazine\/\">Create Magazine<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, gorgeous! These are the beautiful and empowering paintings of New York based artist Elisa Valenti, and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, the perfect way to kick off 2020. I love her work, and I super duper love the reason behind it: &#8220;I grew up in a time when eating in public was shameful, stomach [&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\/35206"}],"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=35206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35231,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35206\/revisions\/35231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}