{"id":20811,"date":"2026-03-31T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=20811"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:30:20","slug":"at-pleasant-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/20811","title":{"rendered":"At Pleasant Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe holistic quality of craft lies not only in engaging the whole person but also in harmonizing his understanding of himself in the world.\u201d
\n\u2014 Peter Korn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWell I guess my advice would be: be patient. If you follow your gut and not the advertisements on the side of the bus, everything will turn out as nature intended.\u201d
\n\u2014 Nick Offerman<\/a>
\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plenty of time<\/a> on the east end of Shaker Village<\/a> (during past outings) paid off in the studio recently. I decided to complete this one during the final week of my March Exertion<\/a>. I intend to leave the rough, unfinished edges on this piece. When I was \u201cpainting in papers\u201d on location, I could hear the sheep, but they never showed up in my view of their enclosure. Actually, I can still hear them (haha). <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n

As the whole world is forced to swallow \u201clarge language models\u201d that have run amok (which nobody really asked for<\/a>), it is satisfying and gratitude inducing to make something authentic with my own hands at the historic setting of a culture revered for its artisanship. <\/p>\n

 
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

At Pleasant Hill<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage en plein air by J A Dixon
\nfound paper, gel transfers, tissue, tea bags
\non vintage notebook cover, 12.5 x 6 inches
\nfinished during my March Exertion, day 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe holistic quality of craft lies not only in engaging the whole person but also in harmonizing his understanding of himself in the world.\u201d \u2014 Peter Korn \u201cWell I guess my advice would be: be patient. If you follow your gut and not the advertisements on the side of the bus, everything will turn out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,157,216,18,249,71],"tags":[322,90,308,316,317,325,557,681,313,418,318,96,321,639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20811"}],"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=20811"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20846,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20811\/revisions\/20846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}