{"id":36847,"date":"2020-10-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36847"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:12:36","slug":"monica-ajenjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/01\/monica-ajenjo\/","title":{"rendered":"m\u00f3nica ajenjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/01\/monica-ajenjo\/monica_ajenjo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36849\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/monica_ajenjo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"7681\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pure happiness! This is the hyper-real work of Spanish painter<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/monicajenjo\/\"> M\u00f3nica Ajenjo<\/a>. Yes. they&#8217;re paintings. What? True story. I just read an\u00a0interview\u00a0M\u00f3nica did with <a href=\"https:\/\/createmagazine.com\/read\/2020\/9\/30\/interview-with-monica-diez\">Create Magazine<\/a>, and I immediately started writing this ribbon &amp; balloon filled post. Here&#8217;s one of my favorite excerpts from the interview, specifically about this series:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Bows and Balloons&#8217; relate to our inner child and trigger memories of happiness and joyful hope. Is there anything more exciting than opening a beautifully wrapped present? They are positive omens of everything good that is to come. To me, objects such as bows and balloons are contemporary representations of the celebration of life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Ahhh,<\/em> beautiful. We could all use a little celebration at the moment, no? You can read <a href=\"https:\/\/createmagazine.com\/read\/2020\/9\/30\/interview-with-monica-diez\">the entire interview right here<\/a>. <em>ps. She went to law school before becoming a full time artist. What? Another true story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pure happiness! This is the hyper-real work of Spanish painter M\u00f3nica Ajenjo. Yes. they&#8217;re paintings. What? True story. I just read an\u00a0interview\u00a0M\u00f3nica did with Create Magazine, and I immediately started writing this ribbon &amp; balloon filled post. Here&#8217;s one of my favorite excerpts from the interview, specifically about this series: &#8220;&#8216;Bows and Balloons&#8217; relate to [&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\/36847"}],"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=36847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36854,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36847\/revisions\/36854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}