{"id":1293,"date":"2013-02-21T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T05:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2013-02-23T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:10:31","slug":"journal-collage-first-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1293","title":{"rendered":"Journal Collage  |  First Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAt first I put anything and everything in \u2014 phone numbers, appointments, grocery lists, in addition to things related to what I was thinking about for my work. Over the years the contents have become a shade more formal, and much more visual. There\u2019s less of my hand (in the sense of sketches and drawings), more reliance on found material. But I\u2019ve tried to keep the whole thing as loose and freewheeling as possible.\u201d
\n\u2014 John Willenbecher<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I was 21, I had a single conversation with a man named Henry who boarded at the Cincinnati house where I lived. He seemed much older at the time, but I would guess now that he was barely 25. What I took away from that one exchange was Henry\u2019s strong conviction that I should start a journal, as he had done several years before. Heeding his invaluable advice, I kept an active journal close at hand from that point forward. At first, it was just words, because I already had various sketchbooks as a student. Eventually, it became a comprehensive repository for personal notes, musings, doodles, and thumbnail ideas. As time passed, the content took on more of the character of visual exploration, with whole pages devoted to spontaneous collage experiments and studies for what might or might not lead to a finished artwork. I discovered that John Wllenbecher and others were calling their volumes \u201ccommonplace books,\u201d a term more strictly applied to a \u201cverbal scrapbook.\u201d For some reason, mine also seemed a bit large for that particular name (sometimes 11 x 14, but most often 8.5 x 11), and so I\u2019ve always continued to think of them as my journals. In combination with the many hundreds of handmade greeting cards I\u2019ve created over the same period of time (nearly 40 years now), these private \u201cchronicles\u201d have served as the primary incubator for my work as a collage artist.
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Untitled (Library Use Only)<\/em><\/strong>
\njournal collage by J A Dixon
\n8.5 x 11 inches, not for sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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