{"id":19615,"date":"2025-05-22T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=19615"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:05:44","slug":"a-living-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/19615","title":{"rendered":"A Living Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat seems to me the great American danger we\u2019re all in, that we\u2019ll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.\u201d
\n\u2014 Mike Nichols
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\nFrom the time that I began to exhibit collage, people have responded positively to art made from stuff that would otherwise be recycled or thrown away. They like the idea that anything cast off can be repurposed and infused with new meaning and a measure of beauty. Collage is ideally suited to individual response and offers a universal experience. Nearly everyone can understand and relate to cutting and pasting paper.<\/p>\n

On first impression, people often think my landscapes are conventional paintings \u2014 until they move closer. At the same intimate distance the works were created, viewers find only paper ingredients, fragments of printing, and layers of torn edges. It\u2019s been rewarding for me to witness this sense of discovery, a reaction similar to what I\u2019ve experienced by exploring the potential of paper. This living connection with others doesn\u2019t happen with a digital exchange. It fires my enthusiasm for representational collage as an artistic concentration.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat seems to me the great American danger we\u2019re all in, that we\u2019ll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.\u201d \u2014 Mike Nichols     From the time that I began to exhibit collage, people have responded positively to art made from stuff that would otherwise be recycled or thrown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19615"}],"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=19615"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19624,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19615\/revisions\/19624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}