{"id":121,"date":"2025-09-21T06:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/?p=121"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:23:19","slug":"self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"1159\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blog1-best-edited-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Mira sitting cross-legged, holding up blank canvas in front of her face\" class=\"wp-image-125\" style=\"width:354px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blog1-best-edited-2.jpg 773w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blog1-best-edited-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blog1-best-edited-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blog1-best-edited-2-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">50mm, f3.0, ISO 1600, 1\/64<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#5a3024\" class=\"has-inline-color\">In this self-portrait, I captured my anxiety and insecurity of not knowing who I want to be without displaying my face. While I am only sixteen, it can be scary seeing how many of my peers seem to already be figuring out their lives, and I wanted to capture the fear of an unknown future in a photograph. I used an empty canvas to symbolize my undefined sense of self; a blank slate waiting to be filled. I struggled with trying to figure out how I wanted to tie in the blank canvas. Whether that be me turned away from the camera, looking at the canvas or what I ended up using, which had the canvas covering my face, but me pointed at the camera. In the end, I think the shot I was able to get emulates the concept I was originally aiming for.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this self-portrait, I captured my anxiety and insecurity of not knowing who I want to be without displaying my face. While I am only sixteen, it can be scary seeing how many of my peers seem to already be figuring out their lives, and I wanted to capture the fear of an unknown future &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/self-portrait\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self-Portrait&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiraT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}