{"id":779,"date":"2020-12-28T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=779"},"modified":"2020-12-28T21:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:39:45","slug":"earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pure beauty, for me, lies in the details on which light has fallen upon.&nbsp; It might be&nbsp;&nbsp;as small as&nbsp;the structure of a leaf, the fragmented light of blinded shutters over a woman&#8217;s silhouette, the twinkle in an eye, the reflection of a cloud in a window, the corner of a smile, a soft and loving sigh or as grand as a sky full of stars at a mediterranean sea horizon.&nbsp; Pure beauty has the power to bring me a moment of peace, as I pause in wonder.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mieke-Verdickt-1024x497.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mieke-Verdickt-1024x497.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mieke-Verdickt-300x146.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mieke-Verdickt-768x373.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mieke-Verdickt-1536x746.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mieke-Verdickt-2048x994.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Earnest, Baffled By The Light (2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-larger-font-size\" style=\"color:#a34200\">Earnest: &#8220;Pure beauty has the power to bring me a moment of peace, as I pause in wonder.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earnest.be\">www.earnest.be<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IG: @earnest.art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art Collective: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letsplayground.be\/\">www.letsplayground.be<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,4],"tags":[138,141,139],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-photography","tag-earnest","tag-lets-playground","tag-mieke-verdickt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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