The Collage Miniaturist

Keeps On Slippin
collage artwork by J A Dixon
10 x 13.5 inches
available for purchase

Nine Christmas Minis
collage artwork by J A Dixon
each in private collections

If you send hand-written messages during the year-end season, you may want some new note cards that feature collage artworks from my series of Christmas-tree greetings. Each large, blank card is 5.125 x 7.75 inches and is folded along the left vertical edge. Matching envelopes are included, of course.

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Assorted vertical-format cards ~ 5 cards, 1 each of 5 ~ $27.50
     larger note cards that feature collage artworks from
     my series of handmade Christmas-tree greetings

Preview each distinctive
seasonal note card

Valentines by John’s Haus of Cards!

Cyborg Santa
John’s Haus of Cards!
collection of J M Strock, Jr

Buy local this season and bring home a sleigh-load of art. The Holiday Market at the Community Arts lasts until December 23rd!
 

Holiday Market at the Community Arts Center
Downtown Danville, Kentucky
Interior decorations by C Beale

I shall be participating in the first-ever Holiday Market at our local Community Arts Center. The opening reception is this Friday evening, and I’m curious to see how much interest there is in art buying for the year-end season.
 
 

“Art has to be something that makes you scratch your head.”
—Edward Ruscha

I think it is good to start a fresh cycle with something that perplexes me. Will anyone else think that this is art? Does the irrepressible creative urge need to take matters into its own hands now and then? Or am I merely illustrating an untold story from my rambunctious imagination?

Happy New Year!
 

Transfigured
collage miniature on book cover by J A Dixon
7.25 x 9.5 inches
 
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“Time is so sneaky…don’t let it fool you into saying silly things. Your time here is yours…treasure it and enjoy it. It doesn’t ‘move’…it merely ‘exists’…period.”
— B L Cummings

I was thinking that the holiday season had gotten away from me, and that I had not had enough time to make the many hand-crafted things that usually capture my interest and comprise my gift giving. And then I saw a Christmas Eve comment from the incomparable Burton, who has a superlative knack for putting universal thoughts into words. The whole “ain’t got no time” notion dissolved and I realized, once again, that there’s always enough time for what’s important.

Wishing the joy of Christmas to all . . .
 

Untitled (nativity with serpent)
a Christmas collage experiment by J A Dixon
collection of C D Darst

Untitled (nativity with thorns)
a Christmas collage experiment by J A Dixon
collection of P B Seitz

Untitled (nativity with cherubim)
a Christmas collage experiment by J A Dixon
collection of K Simpson

“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.”
— Henri Poincaré

December is the time of year for making hand-crafted holiday cards. By and by, I return to variations on the theme of a Christmas tree. Perhaps some of the collage miniatures are more “successful” than others, but the point of this ritual (other than sharing joy with dear ones, of course) is granting free rein to an intuitive response. Exercising this capacity is at the heart of collage as a medium. How important it is to give the imagination a blank check and invest no concern in the lack of a preconceived approach! Choosing a simple pictorial theme conveniently jump-starts an experimental process. What follows is pure discovery.
 

29 collage greeting
cards by J A Dixon
variations on a
Christmas theme
2001 – 2016

The customary Valentine’s Day division of labor: I make a card and my sweetheart bakes a cherry pie. Don’t you agree that I get the better side of this deal?
 

 
Hearts for Dana, 2016
collage greeting card by J A Dixon
7.875 x 5.25 inches