{"id":1732,"date":"2013-05-04T19:42:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2015-07-01T23:36:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T03:36:25","slug":"comliments-of-the-haus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1732","title":{"rendered":"Compliments of the Haus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe don\u2019t critique a gift. We don\u2019t worry about its technical qualities or how its built. We don\u2019t want metrics on our gifts. When we get a gift, it makes us feel something. Gifts tap into our sometimes irrational emotions and move us. We don\u2019t question it. We simply give thanks.\u201d
\n\u2014 Jarrett Fuller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday was my nephew\u2019s birthday, so I produced the customary personal miniature as a greeting card cover image. Many of these creations are so idiosyncratic as to be virtually unexplainable (not that a collage needs any explanation in the first place, of course). Long have I found the personal miniature to be one of the most enticing of art forms. It begins with a pleasant agenda \u2014 engage the unique personality of the intended recipient \u2014 yet it offers profound opportunities for wild departures, because one already knows that the result will be met with joy and high regard by the primary observer. Much could be written about this subject and the history of artists as gift-givers. Any creative person will undoubtedly appreciate what I mean by this. <\/p>\n

Here are a few more cards from my archives:
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A Furious Struggle<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\ncollection of B C Adkins<\/p>\n

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Gravitational Familiarity<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\ncollection of S Lister<\/p>\n

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Solar Deliberation<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\ncollection of J M Menke<\/p>\n

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Organic Potential<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\ncollection of C Dixon<\/p>\n

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Compliments of the Haus<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\ncollection of H Coomer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe don\u2019t critique a gift. We don\u2019t worry about its technical qualities or how its built. We don\u2019t want metrics on our gifts. When we get a gift, it makes us feel something. Gifts tap into our sometimes irrational emotions and move us. We don\u2019t question it. We simply give thanks.\u201d \u2014 Jarrett Fuller Yesterday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,23,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732"}],"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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5260,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}