{"id":20141,"date":"2025-10-19T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=20141"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:15:13","slug":"gratitude-is-always-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/20141","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude is always in order."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An image from a dozen years ago reminds me of how many small experiments I made to retain dexterity, to improve skill at paper manipulation, and to reinforce my confidence that intuition is worthy of trust. Over a thousand miniatures, probably more. It was necessary to counteract \u201cThe Runaway Machine,\u201d and the practice revealed a path to my current focus as a collage artist. Talent has its limitations and is often over-rated, but creative development can be ongoing and boundless. I am grateful that it works this way.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TheNewNumberTwo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TheNewNumberTwo.jpg\" title=\"The New Number Two ~ collage experiment by J A Dixon\" width=\"360\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TheNewNumberTwo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TheNewNumberTwo-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 279px; margin-bottom: 27px; color: maroon; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 281px; margin-bottom: 37px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>The New Number Two<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n5.5 x 3.75 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image from a dozen years ago reminds me of how many small experiments I made to retain dexterity, to improve skill at paper manipulation, and to reinforce my confidence that intuition is worthy of trust. Over a thousand miniatures, probably more. It was necessary to counteract \u201cThe Runaway Machine,\u201d and the practice revealed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141"}],"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=20141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20145,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141\/revisions\/20145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}