{"id":1784,"date":"2013-05-19T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T17:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2015-12-11T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:45:19","slug":"mystery-solved-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1784","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved ~ details"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the full viewing experience, one can never get too close to a collage, but this opinion from a person so enamored with the miniature probably comes as no surprise. When I create a larger piece, lessons learned from the small format have a strong bearing on my approach. As a concluding exercise to hone compositional awareness, it is beneficial to discover croppings that can stand successfully on their own. Before Mystery Solved<\/em><\/a> left the studio, it was interesting to visually isolate six square miniatures, just to see if they might capture in microcosm the essence of the parent design.
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A \u2018Jack of Diamonds\u2019 was too visually outstanding
at first and had to be massaged into balance.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I enjoy creating a montage of linguistic symbols,
but \u201ca-l-e\u201d was accidental (or perhaps subliminal;
one never really knows with collage).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Integration through color: photo of butterfly
specimen + ticket stub + magazine scrap.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Juxtaposition: illustration from an exotic soap
wrapper + book engraving + photo of flower.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The interesting effect of a raised panel: the
illusion of depth versus actual dimensionality.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From diverse sources: combining ingredients
that seem to have always belonged together.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks again for looking. Please share your thoughts, suggestions, or constructive criticism (frankly, our medium of collage always needs a healthy dose of it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the full viewing experience, one can never get too close to a collage, but this opinion from a person so enamored with the miniature probably comes as no surprise. When I create a larger piece, lessons learned from the small format have a strong bearing on my approach. As a concluding exercise to hone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,168,157,22,18,111,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}