{"id":15623,"date":"2020-10-05T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:36:13","slug":"knobland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/15623","title":{"rendered":"Knobland"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 Wendell Berry<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I spent a hot but glorious day with the August sun and \u201cknobs\u201d of Boyle County, Kentucky. At first it looked as if I didn\u2019t need to do much with this one when I examined it in the studio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JADixon_Knobland_Interim.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">because I\u2019d decided to ignore any evidence of habitation at the rural setting.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/scrap_on_fence_post.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/scrap_on_fence_post.jpg\" title=\"I got a kick out shooting one of my collage fragments on a fence post at the rural location.\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/ hspace=\"22\" vspace=\"25\" align=right \/><\/a>Something convinced me that wasn\u2019t the way to go, so I decided to plunge back in, referring back to my photo reference. As usual, I was bound and determined to avoid exceeding the time I\u2019d spent on location or to ruin the impression that I\u2019d already captured. I didn\u2019t know exactly what to do. That I couldn\u2019t leave well enough alone was clear enough. Working more from a memory of how the farmstead was tucked into the countryside, I completed the miniature within the desired limitation. To be totally honest, I still don\u2019t know if the result is an artistic improvement, but the presence of people with a relationship to this particular natural place ended up being an overwhelming necessity for my landscape. You can be the judge of its final merit as well as I.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JADixon_Knobland.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JADixon_Knobland.jpg\" alt=\"Knobland ~ plein air collage miniature by J A Dixon\" title=\"Knobland ~ plein air collage miniature by J A Dixon\" width=\"366\" height=\"370\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JADixon_Knobland.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JADixon_Knobland-300x303.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 388px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: gray; padding-left: 33px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Knobland<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nplein air collage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n50% \/50% \u2014 site to studio<br \/>\n6.9375 x 7 inches<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: #CC3333; padding-left: 33px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022&nbsp; S O L D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.\u201d \u2015 Wendell Berry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,216,18,249,201],"tags":[322,90,308,316,317,557,313,418,318,321,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623"}],"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=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16564,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}