{"id":165,"date":"2021-11-17T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:26:20","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/uiumup-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" width=\"255\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>EN<\/strong>  \/  <a href=\"http:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/a-propos-de-moi\/\">FR<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-background-color has-background\">I am a self-taught artist born in Uccle (Brussels) in 1985.<br><br>I trained as a psychologist,<br>It is during my professional experience with young visually impaired and blind children that I was able to observe to what extent the sense of touch (of materials, textures) was an essential<br>dimension to connect with them and this has fed and influenced my art.<br><br>The textures and the reliefs are fundamental markers in the conception of my paintings.<br>My desire is to make you touch with your eyes. <br><br>Since then, the world has become a big playground for me.<br>I am learning to take a new look at the lost objects I find during my treasure hunts.<br><br>My objective is to sublimate everyday objects, to give them a second life. <br>I assemble them in mysculpture-paintings and divert them from their original purpose. <br><br>Medicine blisters, socks that have lost their halves, polystyrene\u2026 are seen with a new eye and mainly I would like to give them a new meaning and give them the opportunity to carry a message of awareness.<br><br>It is also a way for me to approach in a playful way the themes of overconsumption and recycling, as much for textiles as for plastic or medicine blisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-background-color has-background\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EN \/ FR I am a self-taught artist born in Uccle (Brussels) in 1985. I trained as a psychologist,It is during my professional experience with young visually impaired and blind children that I was able to observe to what extent the sense of touch (of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABOUT ME<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laetitiademeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}