{"id":11490,"date":"2018-11-23T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T23:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2022-12-31T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T21:40:08","slug":"i-will-not-by-evil-be-ever-dismayd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/11490","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI will not by evil be ever dismay\u2019d.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve been protected, I\u2019ve been directed, I\u2019ve been corrected, I\u2019ve kept God in my life and it\u2019s kept me humble, I didn\u2019t always stick with Him but He always stuck with me.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Denzel Washington<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dixon_FortunesConspiracy.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fortune\u2019s Conspiracy<\/em><\/a> went home with a buyer. I really wasn\u2019t intending it as the first in a series, but I was moved to continue the theme and make another piece available for our <em>Holiday Market at the Arts Center<\/em> (here in my town of Danville). A fellow artist was curious about the logic of the title, but she eventually discovered the hymn and its fragment of wording. There are times when a collage title is as intuitive as the composition. I often think of a title as just one more ingredient in the total amalgamation \u2014 part of the harmonious balance that can exist beneath a veneer of irrationality.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BlKOJAD.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BlKOJAD.jpg\" title=\"fellow collage artists ~ Brandon Long, Kathleen O\u2019Brien, and John Andrew Dixon ~ photo by Greg Orth\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11498\" height=\"233\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BlKOJAD.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BlKOJAD-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 83%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 211px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: #993300; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\">J A Dixon enjoys a pleasant moment with fellow collage<br \/>\nartists at the Holiday Market opening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dixon_EverDismayd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dixon_EverDismayd.jpg\" title=\"Ever Dismay\u2019d ~ J A Dixon\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11495\" height=\"461\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dixon_EverDismayd.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dixon_EverDismayd-300x462.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dixon_EverDismayd-665x1024.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 480px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Ever Dismay\u2019d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n6 x 10 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=HKE9EZ3ZQNEYN\" title=\"BUY NOW from Dixon Design through PayPal.\" style=\"display:visible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been protected, I\u2019ve been directed, I\u2019ve been corrected, I\u2019ve kept God in my life and it\u2019s kept me humble, I didn\u2019t always stick with Him but He always stuck with me.\u201d \u2014 Denzel Washington Fortune\u2019s Conspiracy went home with a buyer. I really wasn\u2019t intending it as the first in a series, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,1,18,4,398,35,46,92,621],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490"}],"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=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16963,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/16963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}