{"id":16244,"date":"2022-07-02T17:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T21:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=16244"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T19:01:54","slug":"eleventh-chapter-paint-old-lex-in-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/16244","title":{"rendered":"Eleventh chapter \u2014 Paint old Lex in papers . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIf I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Edward Hopper<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dixon_PPT22_locationRig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dixon_PPT22_locationRig.jpg\" title=\"My insane rig in the railroad right-of-way, to produce the competitive collage that I call \u2018Oathouse.\u2019\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"20\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"18\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s my collage <em>en plein air<\/em> for this summer\u2019s annual \u201cPaint the Town\u201d challenge (organized by Kate Savage of Lexington\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsconnectlex.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Arts Connect<\/a>). Hours never evaporate so alarmingly fast as during this event. It had to be delivered framed and ready for immediate display within the six-hour deadline. The piece looks a bit unfinished to my eye, and probably will until an image wrapped in expectations has faded from my head. My insane trackside rig (located across from the Lawrence Brewer &#038; Son Horse Oats warehouse) drew the attention of a railroad inspector, but, thankfully, I was left uninterrupted.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nDo you think I should\u2019ve brought along the kitchen sink, too?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dixon_Oathouse.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dixon_Oathouse.jpg\" title=\"Oathouse ~ collage en plein air by J A Dixon for \u2018Paint the Town\u2019\" width=\"422\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16013\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 444px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Oathouse<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage <em>en plein air<\/em> by J A Dixon<br \/>\n100% \/ 0% \u2014 site to studio<br \/>\n10 x 10 inches + handcrafted frame<br \/>\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.\u201d \u2013 Edward Hopper &nbsp; Here\u2019s my collage en plein air for this summer\u2019s annual \u201cPaint the Town\u201d challenge (organized by Kate Savage of Lexington\u2019s Arts Connect). Hours never evaporate so alarmingly fast as during this event. It had to be delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,644,216,18,633,249],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244"}],"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=16244"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18512,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions\/18512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}