{"id":309,"date":"2016-02-03T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurelantur.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/03\/2016-2-2-confessions\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:41:09","slug":"2016-2-2-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/03\/2016-2-2-confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I participated in a 5 Day challenge online, designed to help artist tap into their most authentic art. It was facilitated by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jessicaserran.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Serran<\/a>, and I highly recommend you check out her website and course offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The main thing I learned about myself is that darn it, I just really like to make art that feels very taboo. And as I dare to make and show this work, the response I get is positive and supportive. And I appreciate that, because it feels scary to put this work out there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Almost everything I want to make is so centered in my body, our bodies, in sexuality and intimacy. Self hatred, self love. Frigidity and passion. Love and disconnection. Lust and disgust.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-gallery-wrapper\">\n<p>   <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56b18fb81bbee06392b3a5ca\/1454477555240\/DSCN5897.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56b18f8e1bbee06392b3a48d\/1454477349120\/IMG_2214.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56b18f8e27d4bd9acd02ff7d\/1454477396077\/IMG_2215.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56b18fb9e707eb54e4be4cc4\/1454477482516\/DSCN5897.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is always some reason for keeping my walls up. Shyness, inexperience, self loathing, judgement, growing older. And all of those reasons are the very reason I reach out and dare to try to connect with another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I participated in a 5 Day challenge online, designed to help artist tap into their most authentic art. It was facilitated by Jessica Serran, and I highly recommend you check out her website and course offerings. The main thing I learned about myself is that darn it, I just really like to make art that feels very taboo. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}