{"id":21034,"date":"2026-05-08T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=21034"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:33:59","slug":"explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/21034","title":{"rendered":"Explore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Salvador Dali<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Small-format collage is an ideal medium for artistic experimentation. Finding a balance of color and form can combine with a spontaneity of meaning. It\u2019s rewarding to do these exercises with scrounged material that otherwise would be discarded forever. Anybody can cut and paste! Who needs this cursed AI to fulfill the creative impulse?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dixon_OnThoseWhoDwell.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dixon_OnThoseWhoDwell.jpg\" title=\"On Those Who Dwell ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"380\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dixon_OnThoseWhoDwell.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dixon_OnThoseWhoDwell-300x395.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 531px; margin-bottom: 27px; color: gray; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>On Those Who Dwell<\/em><\/strong><\/ br><br \/>\ncollage experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\nscrounged paper, tea bags, packaging<br \/>\n4.875 x 6.625 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.\u201d \u2014Pablo Picasso \u201cIf you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.\u201d \u2013 Salvador Dali &nbsp; Small-format collage is an ideal medium for artistic experimentation. Finding a balance of color and form can combine with a spontaneity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,683],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034"}],"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=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21039,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions\/21039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}