{"id":13034,"date":"2019-12-13T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=13034"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:44:43","slug":"sisters-of-sustenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/13034","title":{"rendered":"Sisters of Sustenance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf a work of art does not live in the present, it does not live.\u201d
\n\u2014 Pablo Picasso
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I am not unlike most collage artists who find strong visual appeal in my stash of vintage scrap, but I cannot bring myself to limit the process to old ingredients. I have no intention of knocking the current practitioners who\u2019ve mastered the use of antique material as a self-imposed constraint, but, for me, an artwork lacks contemporary vitality unless up-to-date components from our own time find a place to \u201cbelong\u201d in a new piece.<\/p>\n

Featured below is my response to a project by artist, designer, and educator Clive Knights<\/a>, who recently introduced his \u201cCorporeal Gestures\u201d investigation to collage artists worldwide. It\u2019s an extension of his long-term effort to re-identify \u201cthe nine muses as the cultivation of the orderliness of the human body\u201d through shared necessities. I picked \u201cnourishing\u201d as a catalyst to explore the theme with both old and new paper elements, all of which had retained no intrinsic value and likely would have been recycled or ended up as more rubbish. <\/p>\n

Collage will always have the potential to nourish our sensibilities by transforming apparently worthless but renewable paper into enduring artifacts with fresh symbolic power. Thank you, professor, for a most stimulating exercise.
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Sisters of Sustenance<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage on book cover by J A Dixon
\n6.875 x 10.125 inches
\nfor the Corporeal Gestures project<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf a work of art does not live in the present, it does not live.\u201d \u2014 Pablo Picasso   I am not unlike most collage artists who find strong visual appeal in my stash of vintage scrap, but I cannot bring myself to limit the process to old ingredients. I have no intention of knocking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,465,65,160,22,18,35,17,10,92],"tags":[90,308,466,467,313,415,418,469,468,470,471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034"}],"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=13034"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13053,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions\/13053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}