{"id":10290,"date":"2018-01-28T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10290"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:27:48","slug":"suspend-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10290","title":{"rendered":"Suspend this series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen I begin a new work, I have to start from scratch again, from nothing. I have to be cleared of everything: <em>Tabula rasa<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Arvo P\u00e4rt<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suspend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/bibelot-series\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Bibelot Series<\/em><\/strong><\/a>? It doesn\u2019t look like it. I begin a collage artwork with no preconceived notions and before long it appears to be a \u201cbibelot.\u201d Spontaneity apparently works that way, revealing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/8038\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some unmet creative urge<\/a> that is removed from conscious awareness. Shall I ever purposely end a particular series? More likely than not, I\u2019ll just come to the conclusion that there are no more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/theme_variation\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">variations on that theme<\/a> with a need to emerge \u2014 until I am proven wrong.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_Suspend_Bibelot013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_Suspend_Bibelot013.jpg\" title=\"Suspend (Bibelot 013) ~ J A Dixon\" alt=\"Suspend (Bibelot 013) ~ a collage miniature by John Andrew Dixon ~ part of his Bibelot Series\" width=\"333\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_Suspend_Bibelot013.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dixon_Suspend_Bibelot013-300x308.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 361px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Suspend (Bibelot 013)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n4.625 x 4.625 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=F8NTWN7BC3TMU\" title=\"BUY NOW from Dixon Design through PayPal.\" style=\"display:visible\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Purchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I begin a new work, I have to start from scratch again, from nothing. I have to be cleared of everything: Tabula rasa.\u201d \u2014 Arvo P\u00e4rt &nbsp; Suspend the Bibelot Series? It doesn\u2019t look like it. I begin a collage artwork with no preconceived notions and before long it appears to be a \u201cbibelot.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,98,18,92],"tags":[481,90,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290"}],"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=10290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13394,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions\/13394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}