{"id":216,"date":"2026-01-26T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:07:29","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8441-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Clay black circle with bumps and crevasses \" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8441-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8441-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8441-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8441.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>50mm 1\/64 f4.5 ISO160<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-manrope-font-family has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For this photo, I wanted to capture something that symbolized beginnings but in a very subtle way. The ceramic piece in the middle is one that I sculpted last year during my ceramics course. I remember sculpting this, but feeling unsure of what I wanted it to turn into. I even painted the glaze on it myself. When I look at it now, it still feels incomplete. That imperfection is what inspired me to photograph it. The raw feeling that something is there, but it hasn\u2019t quite become something yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-manrope-font-family has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As I was taking this photo, I thought about how beginnings are never perfect and often feel awkward. The texture is rough, the shape isn\u2019t perfectly round, and you can see where the glaze was painted on\u2013 but that\u2019s what makes it beautiful to me. By centering it, I felt as though I was giving it a space to be, a space to shine. Something that is there, but often goes unnoticed. I really liked this assignment because it opened my mind to storytelling in a new way. You do not always need people or action to create a story. Sometimes it\u2019s about objects that carry personal history and the feeling of starting something without knowing exactly where it will lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this photo, I wanted to capture something that symbolized beginnings but in a very subtle way. The ceramic piece in the middle is one that I sculpted last year during my ceramics course. I remember sculpting this, but feeling unsure of what I wanted it to turn into. I even painted the glaze on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}