{"id":13715,"date":"2020-03-05T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:30:59","slug":"februllage-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/13715","title":{"rendered":"Februllage: how to paste a bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe huge problem is that social media is designed to mess with our insecurities. When you post something and people like it, and a thousand people do that, it feels really good (and everybody who pretends like they are not enchanted by that is a liar), but you must not confuse that thing with real value and where you are going creatively.\u201d
\n\u2014 Christoph Niemann
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I continue to have mixed emotions about social networking formats, as do many others who use them daily. We enjoy the advantages and remain dubious about the rest (as if we even know what \u201cthe rest\u201d means anymore). The continuous cross pollination and instant feedback across continents is unprecedented in the history of creativity. That must surely be filed under Awesome. On the other hand, the false intimacy and ubiquitous jockeying for the most visible presence on stage can be tedious. The potential for subtle exploitation, calculated abuse, and hidden subversion will be left for others to analyze.<\/p>\n

The Instagram-centered Februllage<\/strong><\/a><\/em> project \u2014 coordinated by Scandinavian Collage Museum<\/a><\/em> and The Edinburgh Collage Collective<\/em><\/a> \u2014 ran into some parameter problems with the virtual platform last month. \u201cWork-arounds\u201d were devised. Because the unwelcome limitations were probably related to the massive participation, it would be reasonable to characterize the initiative as a huge success. I found it personally worthwhile to flirt with a few of season two\u2019s catalytic \u201cword prompts.\u201d I wasn\u2019t about to let \u201crabbit\u201d slip by on day 27, so I combined a ruined book cover with ingredients from my bunny stash and added a minor ribbon that my dad claimed over 60 years ago during his reign as a nationally celebrated rabbit breeder. After posting an image on Instagram, I decided to revise the artwork with two additional critters and by restoring the string that I\u2019d previously thought should be removed from the premium. The refined version is featured here.
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Rabbit Book, 1958<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage artifact by J A Dixon
\n7.5 x 7.5 inches
\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe huge problem is that social media is designed to mess with our insecurities. When you post something and people like it, and a thousand people do that, it feels really good (and everybody who pretends like they are not enchanted by that is a liar), but you must not confuse that thing with real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1,421,18],"tags":[535,90,308,313,422,537,418,96,534,536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715"}],"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=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14959,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions\/14959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}