{"id":20146,"date":"2025-10-28T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:25:37","slug":"from-my-recent-collage-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/20146","title":{"rendered":"From my recent collage workshop . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collage is always about the ingredients. They will provide the stimulus, the catalyst, the \u201cmuse,\u201d if you will, that leads to an unexpected next step. They can provide a clue to follow, the suggestion of continuity, and sometimes one piece of paper is the puzzle solution that you never saw coming. Respond to ingredients intuitively, and learn to recognize a spontaneity that isn\u2019t driven by thoughts or feelings. What seems right for the context? It is a sense that an element does or does not \u201cbelong,\u201d whether it is a harmonious similarity or an energetic contrast.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dixon_ATolerableComplexity.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dixon_ATolerableComplexity.jpg\" title=\"A Tolerable Complexity ~ collage experiment by J A Dixon\" width=\"380\" height=\"498\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dixon_ATolerableComplexity.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dixon_ATolerableComplexity-300x393.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 517px; margin-bottom: 17px; color: maroon; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 17px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>A Tolerable Complexity<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n6.875 x 9 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collage is always about the ingredients. They will provide the stimulus, the catalyst, the \u201cmuse,\u201d if you will, that leads to an unexpected next step. They can provide a clue to follow, the suggestion of continuity, and sometimes one piece of paper is the puzzle solution that you never saw coming. Respond to ingredients intuitively, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,22,676],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146"}],"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=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20160,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/20160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}