{"id":1244,"date":"2021-11-26T02:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T02:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/?page_id=1244"},"modified":"2023-12-11T01:12:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T01:12:34","slug":"2020-holiday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/about\/cards\/2020-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bright-blue-color has-text-color\">Holiday Story: Global Pandemic Necessitates Moment of Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category Is: Momento Mori<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>March of 2020 began a surreal chapter in the history of the 2000s and our lives. When it came to the Xmas card, the sister and I were having artistic differences. In hindsight, it turned out for the best, cause we came up with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d had an idea for awhile to take a painting and insert ourselves into it. Who doesn&#8217;t love photoshop! We also decided that the momento mori theme really fit the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Momento mori: In essence, take a moment to meditate on life and enhance your perspective. Be grateful for what you have. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated more directly: As am I, so will you be or, in another version, remember you too will die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started trolling museum painting collections online looking for something in the common domain that I could alter. I came across this piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sisters-elizabethan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sisters-elizabethan.jpg 1262w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sisters-elizabethan-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sisters-elizabethan-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sisters-elizabethan-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sisters-elizabethan-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And I cannot find the artist of this painting, but I&#8217;ve got it written down somewhere. I do find it hilarious that the governess\/companion is right behind and to the right of the sisters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, there&#8217;s kind of a lot going on in that picture besides the two good-looking sisters towards the lower right corner, so I did some cropping and photoshopping, inserting our faces onto those of the sisters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also added in some of the momento mori symbols from our own lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Symbols<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The momento mori theme incorporates several characteristics and symbols that I happen to love:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Skulls*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dutch\/Flemish painting^<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flowers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fragility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acknowledgement of the ethereal nature of our lives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"925\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/momento-mori-symbols.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/momento-mori-symbols.jpg 925w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/momento-mori-symbols-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/momento-mori-symbols-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/momento-mori-symbols-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flamingos, obviously a reference to our abode: Chez Flamant, and one of my skulls, Rhombus. Rhombus was contributed to my collection by Alana who scavenged it from a birthday party. Birds were also a symbol in Flemish paintings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides those two symbols, I also added our other roommates, Amp and Phe. We go nowhere without their say so. #amiright<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/amp-phe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/amp-phe.jpg 900w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/amp-phe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/amp-phe-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/amp-phe-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">L: Ampersand sitting on a book by T.S. Eliot. About cats. R: Phe (Apostrophe) with resting cat face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Message<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To match the feeling of the year, we found a quote matching our theme. We laid that quote over a flower background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1154\" src=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flowers-red.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flowers-red.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flowers-red-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flowers-red-887x1024.jpg 887w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flowers-red-130x150.jpg 130w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flowers-red-768x886.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flowers photo shot around 2015 at Thanksgiving Point during their tulip festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/card-back-tulip.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/card-back-tulip.jpg 936w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/card-back-tulip-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/card-back-tulip-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/card-back-tulip-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A fitting theme, no?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The card came together really nicely. And it reflected how we felt at the end of that year. As I write this, things haven&#8217;t changed a lot, except we can go out in public now thanks to the vaccine. So, to future us, we will get through it! Stay in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Xmas-Card-2020-vert.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Xmas-Card-2020-vert.jpg 609w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Xmas-Card-2020-vert-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Xmas-Card-2020-vert-111x150.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Online card version that we sent out digitally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>*Remember when skulls were a goth symbol but then Alexander McQueen started printing and incorporating them into his fashion and all of a sudden those of us who appreciated the details in life were suddenly trending? Yeah. I do :D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>^Dutch and Flemish art is one of my favorite periods of art. Between the lighting (Caravaggio-esque), the still lives (mixes of fruit, flowers, and\u2014you guessed it\u2014skulls), and the sensuality (more secular themes around maximalism), Flemish art slays me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/cards\/\" title=\"Cards of Holidays Past\">Go back to the main page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/about\/cards\/2021-holiday\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1503\">See 2021<\/a>. <a title=\"2019 Holiday\" href=\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/about\/cards\/2019-holiday\/\">See 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday Story: Global Pandemic Necessitates Moment of Reflection Category Is: Momento Mori March of 2020 began a surreal chapter in the history of the 2000s and our lives. 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