{"id":13993,"date":"2020-04-04T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=13993"},"modified":"2020-06-07T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:58:49","slug":"the-wisdom-of-retrograde-shortening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/13993","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Retrograde Shortening"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cOur intuition is always operating for us. Usually, however, we don\u2019t act on it. When I made the conscious decision to start acting on thoughts that were coming through my head, amazing \u2018coincidences\u2019 began to occur.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Susan Jeffers<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each composition in this series started with a central rectangular zone and some of the elements extend out into the black field when it helped to create a dynamic balance. My tendency is to not overthink an underlying design, and I prefer to keep the process as spontaneous as possible. The same is true of the ingredient subject matter. Any potential symbolic meanings become more apparent after I stop.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you who read this know what it\u2019s like to have something just \u201cbelong,\u201d and when it \u201cfeels right\u201d to occupy a particular space. All of this happens without having to get too intellectual about it, and then the resulting coincidental associations emerge into perception. Antero Alli thinks that what has been described as \u201csynchronicity\u201d will eventually be called a skill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_RetrogradeShortening.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_RetrogradeShortening.jpg\" title=\"The Wisdom of Retrograde Shortening ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_RetrogradeShortening.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_RetrogradeShortening-300x377.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 439px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 33px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>The Wisdom of Retrograde Shortening<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n8 x 10 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\npart of a series created for the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/collagemuseum.com\/bakers-dozen-international-collage-exchange\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baker\u2019s 1\/2-Dozen Collage Exchange<\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u2014 retained by the artist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur intuition is always operating for us. Usually, however, we don\u2019t act on it. When I made the conscious decision to start acting on thoughts that were coming through my head, amazing \u2018coincidences\u2019 began to occur.\u201d \u2014 Susan Jeffers &nbsp; Each composition in this series started with a central rectangular zone and some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,187,18,35,10],"tags":[90,308,556,557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13993"}],"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=13993"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14154,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13993\/revisions\/14154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}