{"id":2324,"date":"2013-08-09T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2023-11-08T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:25:05","slug":"theme-and-variation-in-collage-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/2324","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thematic series has a long tradition in the visual arts. Collage and assemblage are no different, thanks to the groundbreaking legacy of Joseph Cornell. Preparations are under way for me to expand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/silk-road-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silk Road Series<\/a> that I began in March. Creating variations within a thematic limitation has also become a fixture of current collaboration in collage. An artist will suggest the visual parameter (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Terry-Ray-Flowers\/114001405285\" title=\"Terry Ray Flowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T R Flowers<\/a> did recently with an \u201cAtomic Bombs\u201d album at facebook) and participants respond with their individual interpretations. Here\u2019s my contribution to that particular series:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dixon_SweetContamination.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dixon_SweetContamination.jpg\" title=\"Sweet Contamination ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dixon_SweetContamination.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dixon_SweetContamination-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 304px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 39px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Sweet Contamination<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7.875 x 5.5 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=4KT3QNHRRPZLW\" title=\"BUY NOW through PayPal.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purchase this artwork!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thematic series has a long tradition in the visual arts. Collage and assemblage are no different, thanks to the groundbreaking legacy of Joseph Cornell. Preparations are under way for me to expand the Silk Road Series that I began in March. Creating variations within a thematic limitation has also become a fixture of current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,65,18,54,93,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324"}],"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=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17761,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/17761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}