{"id":19552,"date":"2025-05-17T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=19552"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:02:41","slug":"kaleido-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/19552","title":{"rendered":"Kaleido-Scraps!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo, you never think you\u2019ve made it. To be respected by my peers is the most I could ask for.\u201d
\n\u2014 Freddy Cole\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I broke into the collage world twenty years ago and eventually gained some recognition with contemporary practitioners for my fine art approach to the medium, just as social networks were taking hold. My recent emphasis has been in another direction, as those of you who follow this site are fully aware. I still aspire to \u201cmake it\u201d in the realm of nonrepresentational collage, but that may not happen for a guy who \u201cpaints in papers\u201d as a landscape artist.<\/p>\n

I enjoy periodically coming back to the tradition of Merz,<\/em> and here\u2019s a lyrical piece that I created for tonight\u2019s fundraising auction and random draw. The business of art should involve some community pro bono work, as with all professions. Yes, I\u2019ve pontificated about this before<\/a>. To help needy nonprofits appreciate the value of creative labor, I maintain this rule of thumb: keep donations modest, infrequent, and local.
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Kaleido-Scraps<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage on stretched canvas
\n24 x 18 inches, in the Merz<\/em> tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo, you never think you\u2019ve made it. To be respected by my peers is the most I could ask for.\u201d \u2014 Freddy Cole I broke into the collage world twenty years ago and eventually gained some recognition with contemporary practitioners for my fine art approach to the medium, just as social networks were taking hold. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,1,244,243,13,18,111,63,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19552"}],"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=19552"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19625,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19552\/revisions\/19625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}