{"id":14200,"date":"2025-12-31T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:46:29","slug":"last-one-for-the-2025-collage-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/14200","title":{"rendered":"Last one for the 2025 collage archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you\u2019re doing a good job you should feel that it gets harder. If you think it\u2019s getting easier, you ought to look out. I think it means you\u2019re getting lazy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Matthew Carter<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My final collage of the calendar year might be a favorite for the whole cycle, even though the finish felt like a struggle. Although I spent a lot of time at this natural place before confronting my impression on the drawing board, bringing it around to a \u201cfinished look\u201d transcended a plein air description. I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s hard for me to cross that line, but a fulfillment process often needs to maintain the upper hand. I can never easily bend paper to my will, but, if I ask nicely, it will cooperate to help me become an \u201cagent\u201d of the Creative Source.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dixon_HavenOnTheKnob.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dixon_HavenOnTheKnob.jpg\" title=\"Haven on the Knob ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"362\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 521px; margin-bottom: 22px; color: gray; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Haven on the Knob<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Marion County, Kentucky<\/em><br \/>\ncollage landscape by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7.75 x 10.75 inches<br \/>\nprivate collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re doing a good job you should feel that it gets harder. If you think it\u2019s getting easier, you ought to look out. I think it means you\u2019re getting lazy.\u201d \u2014 Matthew Carter &nbsp; My final collage of the calendar year might be a favorite for the whole cycle, even though the finish felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,249,35,55],"tags":[322,90,308,316,317,325,557,313,418,318,96,321,639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200"}],"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=14200"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20386,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions\/20386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}