{"id":15074,"date":"2021-03-31T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=15074"},"modified":"2023-07-15T19:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T23:46:58","slug":"march-explosion-thirtieth-and-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/15074","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(plosion) &nbsp;|&nbsp; Thirty-First and Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dixon_Portions_onWall.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dixon_Portions_onWall.jpg\" title=\"a ten-inch square dimensional collage on structured panel\" height=\"188\" hspace=\"22\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"9\" width=\"188\"\/><\/a>final piece in my month-long collage-per-day ritual. I&#8217;ll bet I&#8217;m not the only one whose mom used to say, &#8220;Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.&#8221; The admonishment stays sharply influential. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DixonCollageStudioLiesFallow.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">I feel that way in the studio<\/a> at times, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/14063\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a peculiar stash<\/a> ready for decades of dining. But if one wants to keep on devouring, it might be important to watch \u201cthe size of the portions,\u201d too. This plate was a ten-inch square dimensional collage on structured panel. And it would be unforgivable to neglect citing the hilarious scene from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2431286\/mediaviewer\/rm137723392\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Philomena<\/em><\/a> as another distinct motherly reference. <\/p>\n<p>March is over. April is served. <em>Bon app\u00e9tit.<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dixon_Portions_cropped.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dixon_Portions_cropped.jpg\" title=\"Size of the Portions ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"366\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 387px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Size of the Portions<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage artwork by J A Dixon<br \/>\n10 x 10 x 1.5 inches<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/date\/2021\/03\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">for the 2021 March Ex(plosion)<\/a><\/em><br \/>\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final piece in my month-long collage-per-day ritual. I&#8217;ll bet I&#8217;m not the only one whose mom used to say, &#8220;Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.&#8221; The admonishment stays sharply influential. I feel that way in the studio at times, with a peculiar stash ready for decades of dining. But if one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22,71,131],"tags":[90,308,557,313,415,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074"}],"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=15074"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17456,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions\/17456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}