{"id":81,"date":"2026-11-03T06:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/?p=81"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:35:04","slug":"self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blog1c-1-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"A person with dark hair holds a colorful bouquet of LEGO flowers in front of their face, against a plain beige wall.\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blog1c-1-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blog1c-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blog1c-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blog1c-1-scaled.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">f\/3.375, ISO 2000, 1\/100, 50mm <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this faceless self-portrait, I hid my face behind a bouquet of LEGO flowers. Real flowers are beautiful, but they wilt after a few days. LEGO flowers are different because they\u2019re built piece by piece, and they last. I chose them because I see myself the same way: who I am isn\u2019t just how I look, it\u2019s what I build over time through hard work, the people I care about, and the things I create. By covering my face, I wanted the viewer to focus on what I\u2019m holding instead of what I look like, because I think what we choose to build says more about us than our faces do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this faceless self-portrait, I hid my face behind a bouquet of LEGO flowers. Real flowers are beautiful, but they wilt after a few days. LEGO flowers are different because they\u2019re built piece by piece, and they last. I chose them because I see myself the same way: who I am isn\u2019t just how I&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValentinaP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}