{"id":263,"date":"2012-08-21T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=263"},"modified":"2018-02-24T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T18:14:14","slug":"where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/263","title":{"rendered":"Where credit is due . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI never made \u2018Who\u2019s Who,\u2019 but I\u2019m featured in \u2018What&#8217;s That?\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Phyllis Diller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>America has lost not only a pioneering comedic performer, but also a multi-talented artist. Nevertheless, the image that is circulating in the wake of her demise is not a Diller self-portrait, but a work by skilled assemblage artist Jason Mecier, who had an exhibition called \u201cCelebrity Junkdrawers.\u201d Notice that his ability to create strong illusions of visual depth does not rest on the inherent dimensionality of ingredient objects, but on an astute interpretation of light and shadow.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thejasonmecier.com\/celebrities\/celebrity-junk-drawer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mecier_PhyllisDiller-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Phyllis Diller gold by Jason Mecier\" title=\"Phyllis Diller gold by Jason Mecier\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mecier_PhyllisDiller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mecier_PhyllisDiller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mecier_PhyllisDiller.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 322px; margin-bottom: 19px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Phyllis Diller gold<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nmosaic portrait by Jason Mecier<br \/>\n40 x 40 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI never made \u2018Who\u2019s Who,\u2019 but I\u2019m featured in \u2018What&#8217;s That?\u2019\u201d \u2014Phyllis Diller America has lost not only a pioneering comedic performer, but also a multi-talented artist. Nevertheless, the image that is circulating in the wake of her demise is not a Diller self-portrait, but a work by skilled assemblage artist Jason Mecier, who had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,272,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10498,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}