{"id":13285,"date":"2020-01-02T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T01:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2020-01-14T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T04:58:10","slug":"the-spirit-of-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/13285","title":{"rendered":"The spirit of my time . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cReal trust does not need verification;
if you have to verify, it is not trust.\u201d
\n\u2013 Charles H Green
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Being part of a regional group invited to unveil a \u201cfourth-quarter\u201d creation in January is something that I\u2019ve come to deeply appreciate. It\u2019s getting difficult to remember any other way to conclude a year of creative activity. Because I\u2019ve routinely written here about our New Year New Art<\/em><\/a> tradition, I don\u2019t want to overdo the point. To bypass the typical curatorial scrutiny and be entrusted with hanging something sight unseen is a gratification that every working artist should know.<\/p>\n

Zeitgeist<\/em><\/strong><\/a> originated as part of a process that I began over a year ago<\/a>, but it had taken a back seat to a couple of other ideas that got more attention at the time. All three had been sparked by the NYNA<\/em> catalyst. The only restriction that comes with the invitation is that the artwork be completed after August. This time, I didn\u2019t get rolling until after the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d just returned from a trip to Pennsylvania. Long-postponed pilgrimages to Chadds Ford and Fallingwater finally had been realized. Visions from the Barnes Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art were spilling over within my inner sight. I decided to bring the third of the thumbnail concepts to fruition in a manner that would not have occurred to me in 2018. I wanted to create a highly energetic, maximalist piece without losing control of its compositional stability. A loose structure offered a starting point, but I had to alternate intuitive bursts of \u201cMerz assembly\u201d with rational decisions that would visually anchor the dynamism. In addition, coordinated \u201cB-Roll\u201d embellishments were prepared nearby in the studio and inserted at the final stage. The process would bring into greater focus a refined method of harnessing small-format spontaneity when working big.
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\n 
look back
at early- and
late-stage views
\nof my newest
big-scale work<\/em>
 
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(click each
to enlarge)<\/em>
 
 
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My personal orientation to collage remains with smaller dimensions, although some may question the continued self-description as a \u201cminiaturist.\u201d The practice seems to be evolving toward more frequent oversized works, in which I usually embed at least one miniature element that could stand on its own. The annual New Year New Art<\/em> showcase has provided beneficial opportunities for me to shift from a comfortable frame of reference and build a body of larger collage paintings.
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\"Zeitgeist<\/a><\/p>\n

Zeitgeist<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage painting on canvas by J A Dixon
\n36 x 20.25 inches
\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cReal trust does not need verification;if you have to verify, it is not trust.\u201d \u2013 Charles H Green   Being part of a regional group invited to unveil a \u201cfourth-quarter\u201d creation in January is something that I\u2019ve come to deeply appreciate. It\u2019s getting difficult to remember any other way to conclude a year of creative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,273,1,253,8,13,18,111,78,63,35,59,172,19],"tags":[480,90,308,313,418,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285"}],"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=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13385,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions\/13385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}