{"id":10041,"date":"2017-12-26T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:45:30","slug":"year-five-a-new-janus-project-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10041","title":{"rendered":"Year Five: a new \u201cJanus Project\u201d in the works?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say \u2018It is yet more difficult than you thought.\u2019 This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.\u201d
\n\u2015 Wendell Berry
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Someone once opined that \u201csince most people feel that the world gets worse, not better, the only basis of genuinely popular art is nostalgia.\u201d There may be some truth in that. However, one could recall examples of entirely new things gaining wide popularity, too, especially in music. The visual artist must accept that most people will never grant them the position that they ascribe to musical and culinary artists, because nothing in life will supplant music and food in their daily routine of emotional attachments (although, with the current explosion of binge-on-demand streaming entertainment, other creatives may be poised to achieve a similar status). <\/p>\n

When I reflect on my fifth year of musing about collage at this blogsite and look ahead to the next, I realize just how much work there is in front of me to puzzle through some of these ideas.<\/a> Like many artists, I hope to juggle goals that may at first seem in contradiction: to attract patrons, to inspire colleagues, and to please myself. I don\u2019t see any way to approach it other than to balance elements of our past (the appeal of the nostalgic), our present (the lure of the trend), and our future (the surprise of the new). How convenient that balancing elements in Janus-like fashion just happens to be my craft!<\/p>\n

In all seriousness, collage (and the related montage-inherent media) are almost uniquely suited to the challenge at hand, and perhaps that is why post-centennial collage is becoming a worldwide phenomenon in the 21st. Diving more deeply into this quandary will provide ample food for thought in the coming year. Meanwhile, I shall make more!
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\"an<\/a><\/p>\n

Nikki Soppelsa<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nLook ahead to a discussion of \u201cultra miniaturism\u201d in collage.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Hugh Hunt<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nStay tuned for a review of contemporary collage abstraction.<\/p>\n

\"another<\/a><\/p>\n

Terry R Flowers<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nIs it time to peruse the long history of humor in collage?<\/p>\n

\"Construction<\/a><\/p>\n

Kurt Schwitters<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nAnd I shall never tire of studying and sharing the work of KS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say \u2018It is yet more difficult than you thought.\u2019 This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,98,198,1,18,46,141,148,55,164,93,201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}