{"id":13721,"date":"2020-03-08T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=13721"},"modified":"2024-04-10T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:35:19","slug":"th-ink-objectextion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/13721","title":{"rendered":"{th ink} OBJECTEXTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI intentionally left body parts out of the composition, because as collage artists we are so prone to use them on a regular basis. This call was to have you step out of your comfort zone and try something different.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Aaron Beebe<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The past century of collage history has been a steady influence on my art practice, but I find additional inspiration from a body of contemporary practitioners. <a href=\"http:\/\/aaronbeebecollage.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Beebe<\/a> is among them. I was fortunate enough to have a piece reproduced as part of his first <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpublication.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">{th ink}<\/a><\/strong><\/em> publication. With my heart set on getting into issue #2, I confronted the unique submission guidelines: \u201cMust be an analog collage that contains at least one object, NO faces or body parts, and must have some kind of text within the composition.\u201d As I prepared four separate entries, I found myself in no small part attuned to Beebe\u2019s recognizable approach. Paul Klee said, \u201cWe do not analyze works of art because we want to imitate them or because we distrust them.\u201d Emulation for the sake of favor? I would surely hope not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/artists-collage\/l-t-holmes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">L T Holmes<\/a> articulated it best during her outstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/lauratringaliholmes.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/an-homage-to-katrien-de-blauwer.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Under the Influence<\/em><\/a> series of 2013. Lalo Schifrin, while shaping his individual voice as a musician and composer, absorbed the jazz vocabulary of Dizzy Gillespie (who had been influenced by Roy Eldridge). We can all learn much from our peers. Did you see something created this week that stimulated your desire to evolve as an artist? I did.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_JOE.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_JOE.jpg\" title=\"JOE ~ J A Dixon ~ submitted for possible inclusion as part of {th ink} issue #2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_HANK.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_HANK.jpg\" title=\"HANK ~ J A Dixon ~ submitted for possible inclusion as part of {th ink} issue #2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 188%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: -25px; margin-bottom: 1px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_ROY.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_ROY.jpg\" title=\"ROY ~ J A Dixon ~ submitted for possible inclusion as part of {th ink} issue #2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_MIKE.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dixon_thsubmission_MIKE.jpg\" title=\"MIKE ~ J A Dixon ~ submitted for possible inclusion as part of {th ink} issue #2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 85%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 575px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 220px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Four Submissions, 2020<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniatures by J A Dixon<br \/>\n6 x 9 inches each<br \/>\n<em>submitted for possible inclusion<br \/>\nas part of {th ink} issue #2<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI intentionally left body parts out of the composition, because as collage artists we are so prone to use them on a regular basis. This call was to have you step out of your comfort zone and try something different.\u201d \u2014 Aaron Beebe &nbsp; The past century of collage history has been a steady influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,1,160,13,18,551,53,46,552,252,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721"}],"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=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18037,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions\/18037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}