{"id":19679,"date":"2025-06-09T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:00:04","slug":"when-chance-comes-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/19679","title":{"rendered":"When Chance Comes to Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cNever put off until tomorrow what you<br \/>can do the day after tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Clemens, Oscar Wilde, <br \/>or some other unknown wit<br \/> &nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WorkshopArt_KG.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WorkshopArt_KG.jpg\" title=\"exercises from the \u2018Intuitive Collage\u2019 workshop\" width=\"382\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WorkshopArt_KG.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WorkshopArt_KG-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Would that I had followed Ben Franklin\u2019s advice in preparation for my class to share collage-making techniques and perspectives. When I \u201cpick a card\u201d like this and invite Lady Luck, I am more likely to find myself in the Mark Twain frame of mind. At any rate, everybody who signed up was fun to be with, all went well, I\u2019m more than pleased, and surely I\u2019ll do it again. We tackled multiple experiments to short-circuit the calculating mind and build intuitive spontaneity. Five participants were there on Friday and six on Saturday. My thanks to each of them and the hospitality of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kleinheltergallery\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kleinhelter Gallery<\/a>!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dixon_WhenChanceComesToCall.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dixon_WhenChanceComesToCall.jpg\" title=\"When Chance Comes to Call ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"382\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-x\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 471px; margin-bottom: 37px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>When Chance Comes to Call<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature, 2025<br \/>\n7 x 8.25 inches, in the <em>Merz<\/em> tradition<br \/>\navailable to collectors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNever put off until tomorrow what youcan do the day after tomorrow.\u201d \u2014 Sam Clemens, Oscar Wilde, or some other unknown wit &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Would that I had followed Ben Franklin\u2019s advice in preparation for my class to share collage-making techniques and perspectives. When I \u201cpick a card\u201d like this and invite Lady Luck, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,677,1,18,76,63,676],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679"}],"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=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19940,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions\/19940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}