{"id":18272,"date":"2024-06-05T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=18272"},"modified":"2025-02-20T19:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:14:55","slug":"from-their-special-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/18272","title":{"rendered":"From Their Special Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe are part and parcel of the big plan of things. We are simply instruments recording in different measure our particular portion of the infinite. And what we absorb of it makes for character, and what we give forth, for expression.\u201d
\n\u2014 Rockwell Kent
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I returned to historic Caldwell Farm to coordinate an \u201cArt Out\u201d for the Plein Air Artists of Central Kentucky (PAACK<\/a>)<\/em>. When I suitably had met my few obligations for the day, I went alone toward the heart of the acreage to locate a spot that the owners refer to as the \u201cSpecial Place.\u201d Along a well-tended pathway, near a quiet watershed, I set up my makeshift plein air collage rig. From that perspective, I sought to interpret in papers a far-off cluster of corn cribs and structures that once served as the focus of an innovative cattle-raising operation. Two different angles of this agricultural configuration previously had become part of my LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY<\/em><\/a> collection. <\/p>\n

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I found myself simplifying, simplifying. Paper demands it, of course, but also I had hoped to touch the essence of the early summer scene \u2014 a moody sky, the limited palette of buildings, plus an expanse of new corn, barely above the soil. Representational collage, if anything, must be about expression, not craft. What one is blessed to take away from contact with the fusion of nature, ingenuity, and intentional affection is left to individual receptivity. Being a so-called artist is not necessary to reap the potential benefits of experiencing rural beauty. <\/p>\n

 
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From Their Special Place<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage en plein air by J A Dixon
\n9 x 7.625 inches
\nprivate collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe are part and parcel of the big plan of things. We are simply instruments recording in different measure our particular portion of the infinite. And what we absorb of it makes for character, and what we give forth, for expression.\u201d \u2014 Rockwell Kent   I returned to historic Caldwell Farm to coordinate an \u201cArt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,216,18,249,35,246],"tags":[322,90,308,316,317,557,313,418,318,639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272"}],"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=18272"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19282,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions\/19282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}