{"id":1343,"date":"2013-02-28T23:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2015-01-06T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:46:10","slug":"the-march-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1343","title":{"rendered":"The March Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe unshakable rule is that you don\u2019t have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas. That is why you scratch for little ideas. Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.\u201d
\n\u2014 Twyla Tharp<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a number of years, the month of March has held a special distinction for me as an artist. It all began in 2006 as a month-long experiment in focused awareness and evolved into an annual exercise to discover, refine, and internalize creative habits. Tomorrow morning the practice will commence again as I produce and post a collage miniature each day for the duration of the month. Of course, this is not a new idea. When it comes to doing this sort of thing online, most of us who concentrate in the medium will immediately think of Randel Plowman<\/a>, the artist, author, curator, and blogger, who holds the A Collage A Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a> web domain. His successful publication, The Collage Workbook<\/a>, brought heightened attention to the art form during its centennial year. Another individual who has made the online commitment is Portuguese artist Dilar Pereira, who maintains the Daily Collage Project<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. But when it comes to the ritual itself, who can hold a candle to the late John Evans<\/a>? The New York artist created a daily collage for 37 years (except for a single day when he was too ill). Now that\u2019s what I call an exercise!<\/em>
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Color Chart<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage on paper by Randel Plowman
\n8 x 8 inches
\nA Collage A Day<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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O Beijo<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage on canvas by Dilar Pereira
\n13 x 13 centimeters
\nDaily Collage Project<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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6-24-87<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage and watercolor on paper by John Evans
\n12 x 9 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe unshakable rule is that you don\u2019t have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas. That is why you scratch for little ideas. Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.\u201d \u2014 Twyla Tharp For a number of years, the month of March has held a special distinction for me as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,69,52,70,54,71,21,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4739,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/4739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}