{"id":20419,"date":"2026-01-22T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=20419"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:32:38","slug":"blurry-thoughts-and-prickly-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/20419","title":{"rendered":"Blurry Thoughts and Prickly Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cFears about artmaking fall into two families: fears about yourself, and fears about your reception by others. In a general way, fears about yourself prevent you from doing your <em>best<\/em> work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you doing your <em>own<\/em> work.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Art &#038; Fear,<\/em> Bayles and Orland<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Mike Tyson\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you suspicious of a creative impulse? <em>Your intuition is worthy of trust.<\/em> Are you afraid of what others might think? <em>Your collage artwork will be distinctively yours, not theirs.<\/em> If we have that settled, go forth and paste!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dixon_BlurryThoughts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dixon_BlurryThoughts.jpg\" title=\"Blurry Thoughts and Prickly Fears ~ collage miniature in the Merz tradition by J A Dixon\" width=\"350\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 429px; margin-bottom: 27px; color: gray; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Blurry Thoughts and Prickly Fears<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n6 x 7 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFears about artmaking fall into two families: fears about yourself, and fears about your reception by others. In a general way, fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you doing your own work.\u201d \u2014 Art &#038; Fear, Bayles and Orland \u201cFear is the greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,63,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20419"}],"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=20419"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20433,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20419\/revisions\/20433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}