{"id":14072,"date":"2020-05-10T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T21:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:46:34","slug":"a-mothers-day-collage-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/14072","title":{"rendered":"a \u2018Mother\u2019s Day \/ Collage Day\u2019 weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JADMbo_MAR2020.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JADMbo_MAR2020.jpg\" title=\"Virginia Dixon (95) with her son, the artist\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/ hspace=\"27\" vspace=\"7\" align=right \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cAnd if my own children<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;should come to a day,<br \/>\nWhen a new Mother comes<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;and the old goes away,<br \/>\nI\u2019d ask of them nothing<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;that I didn\u2019t do.<br \/>\nLove both of your Mothers<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;as both have loved you.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Joann Snow Duncanson <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 120%; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 7px; color: #CC9999; padding-left: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Happy Happy to all the mothers on their day of honor!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two 10x10s I posted yesterday on Instagram are my salute to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/worldcollageday\/2020\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Collage Day<\/a>,<\/em> an international event contrived to celebrate and boost participation in the medium. The ingredients were generously sent to me by members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/arizonacollagecollective\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Collage Collective<\/a>. Using elements not personally selected was a rewarding exercise \u2014 an opportunity to better understand the distinction between my process of spontaneous composition and choosing qualities in the subject matter itself. For those who enjoy seeing my newest work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thecollageminiaturist\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow \u201cthecollageminiaturist\u201d at Instagram, too<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingTroughHell.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingTroughHell.jpg\" title=\"When You\u2019re Going through Hell ~ J A Dixon ~ for World Collage Day 2020\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingTroughHell.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingTroughHell-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingTroughHell-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 370px; margin-bottom: 11px; color: gray; padding-left: 33px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>When You\u2019re Going through Hell<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage on structured panel by J A Dixon<br \/>\n10 x 10 x 1.5 inches, unframed<br \/>\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingGetsTough.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingGetsTough.jpg\" title=\"When the Going Gets Tough ~ J A Dixon ~ for World Collage Day 2020\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingGetsTough.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingGetsTough-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dixon_GoingGetsTough-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 370px; margin-bottom: 36px; color: gray; padding-left: 33px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>When the Going Gets Tough<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage on structured panel by J A Dixon<br \/>\n10 x 10 x 1.5 inches, unframed<br \/>\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;\u201cAnd if my own children&nbsp;&nbsp;should come to a day, When a new Mother comes&nbsp;&nbsp;and the old goes away, I\u2019d ask of them nothing&nbsp;&nbsp;that I didn\u2019t do. Love both of your Mothers&nbsp;&nbsp;as both have loved you.\u201d \u2014 Joann Snow Duncanson &nbsp; Happy Happy to all the mothers on their day of honor! The two 10x10s I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,244,50,22,18,482,131,132],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072"}],"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=14072"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}