{"id":10085,"date":"2018-01-08T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:03:23","slug":"something-worth-thinking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10085","title":{"rendered":"Something worth thinking about"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhatever comes to mind is a good thing. Don\u2019t think before you work, work before you think.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 George Condo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As collage artists, we respond to the visual ingredients. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Creative-Habit\/Twyla-Tharp\/9780743235273\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twyla Tharp calls it \u201cscratching.\u201d<\/a> It has been described by various artists over the decades: Don\u2019t wait for an idea. Don\u2019t spin a mental wheel. If you are a storyteller, write some words. If you are painter, work the brush. If you are a dancer, let movement happen. At any rate, just go to the studio and do what you do. React to what takes place. Before long, there will be something worth thinking about.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_FairyRingFlux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_FairyRingFlux.jpg\" title=\"Fairy Ring Flux ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_FairyRingFlux.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_FairyRingFlux-300x311.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 364px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Fairy Ring Flux<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n4.6875 x 4.6875 inches<br \/>\nprivate collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhatever comes to mind is a good thing. Don\u2019t think before you work, work before you think.\u201d \u2014 George Condo As collage artists, we respond to the visual ingredients. Twyla Tharp calls it \u201cscratching.\u201d It has been described by various artists over the decades: Don\u2019t wait for an idea. Don\u2019t spin a mental wheel. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,35,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085"}],"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=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19670,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions\/19670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}