Down Side Up
collage catharsis on book cover by J A Dixon
12.5 x 8.75 inches
available for purchase
Archive for the ‘Catharsis’ Category
Down Side Up
Monday, January 8th, 2024Face the Music
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022Collage as catharsis . . .
Sunday, December 12th, 2021“Collage is a fantastic tool to modulate the strain of life and associated feelings.”
— Laurie Kanyer
This one was started some time ago, in response to the Paradise conflagration, but I had no determination to finish it until after a deadly storm front came through our region last Saturday.
If you can, please reach out to help.
Ticket to Trauma
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
8.25 x 10.625 inches
available for purchase
Happy Turkey Day!
Thursday, November 25th, 2021Prognosticated Harm
Thursday, April 29th, 2021March Ex(plosion) | Twenty-First Collage
Sunday, March 21st, 2021Married Life Done Changed Him
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
8.5 x 11.5 inches
from my Series of Rock
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March Ex(plosion) | Fifteenth Collage
Monday, March 15th, 2021To Us Any Day
collage miniature by J A Dixon
6.5 x 8.75 inches
from my Series of Rock
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Makeshift Dissidents
Friday, January 22nd, 2021Reluctant Disobedience
Thursday, January 7th, 2021another prescribed catharsis . . .
Tuesday, August 20th, 2019Flatulent Earth
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
5.5 x 8.5 inches
part of the disrupt climate disruption activity
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Therapeutic factionalism or personal catharsis?
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019“Anger is a very limiting emotion. There’s not much you can do with it. There’s no hope in it.”
— Wendell Berry
There was a time when the arts may have held the capacity to alter the world around us. From time to time, music probably has. Perhaps the dramatic arts, too. The oral and written arts of language certainly have, and they remain highly consequential, but the notion that those engaged in artistic “visual statements” can affect society is an illusion. The early 20th-century avant-garde believed they could, and maybe they did to some limited extent, while the attention of a less distracted elite was seized. At any rate, this innovative class took what they had absorbed, rejected much of it, and cultivated the vocabulary of the modern art forms which influence the bulk of what artists do today. And almost all of what we do now has very little if any catalytic effect on evolving civilization — especially if it was overtly intended to do just that. But make no mistake about it, “message art” has been, is, and can be a significant catharsis for creative individuals. Rest assured that it will reinforce solidarity among people of like mind. It can also be relied upon to irritate many of the others.
Taboo Faction
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
8.125 x 11.5 inches
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