{"id":14069,"date":"2020-05-31T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=14069"},"modified":"2020-07-03T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T22:44:40","slug":"strike-a-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/14069","title":{"rendered":"Strike a light!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEdinburgh Collage Collective would like to send a huge thank you to all the participating collage artists from around the world who have joined us for this project. Our matchbox project has attracted over 1000 submissions. It\u2019s been a great pleasure and inspiration to receive and share all the incredible work. We have certainly seen examples of artists thinking both inside and outside the box. The exploration of the medium has resulted in a wide variety of diverse approaches and interpretations. We have seen everything from 2d flattened boxes to full blown dioramas – all taking their inspiration from the humble matchbox.\u201d
\n\u2014 Rhed Fawell, E C C
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I was inspired to compose something different for the \u201cSTRIKE A LIGHT\u201d Matchbox Project, an open call from Edinburgh Collage Collective<\/a>, which invited international collage artists to make work incorporating the matchbox as a visual starting point. It was a fun submission for me, since I rarely explore 3D collage.<\/p>\n

The two shuttle trucks by Tootsie Toy\u00ae are from 1967. The original Union Match box (with Vincent peeking out) is one I brought back from Brussels in 1974. The whole thing was sparked by finding a tree frog.<\/p>\n

Better not ask me to explain how my mind works. I\u2019m still as baffled by creativity as I was when I decided, as an adolescent, that there was no possible aspiration for me other than to become a visual artist.
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Strike a Light<\/em><\/strong>
\nphoto-collage by J A Dixon
\ncreated for the #strikealight2020<\/a> project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEdinburgh Collage Collective would like to send a huge thank you to all the participating collage artists from around the world who have joined us for this project. Our matchbox project has attracted over 1000 submissions. It\u2019s been a great pleasure and inspiration to receive and share all the incredible work. We have certainly seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,110,52,22,18,565,26],"tags":[397,418,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069"}],"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=14069"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14268,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}