{"id":2930,"date":"2013-11-17T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2020-12-16T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T22:26:59","slug":"on-collage-derivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/2930","title":{"rendered":"On collage derivations . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI believe that it is better to be receptive to correction than to be satisfied with one\u2019s own imperfection, and to think that one is oh so original!\u201d
\n\u2014 Piet Mondrian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I mentioned in a welcome statement<\/a> from over a year ago (and perhaps more recently), I have nothing against digital collage, although I do maintain a bias in favor of conventional (so-called analogue) techniques, especially at this site, but don\u2019t expect me to become \u201call blogmatic\u201d about the topic, since I have been known to gratefully accept commissions for digital montage and affirm my respect for those who do collage illustration at a high level. The point I want to make today is that, so far, I have not generated much enthusiasm for manipulating or reproducing my \u201ctear and glue\u201d artworks as digital prints or \u201cart merchandise.\u201d Someone recently asked if I sold note-card versions of my miniatures, and I had to admit that \u201cI have never quite gotten around to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are many reasons, both good and bad, to produce derivations of one\u2019s own work for the marketplace. There are also many reasons, both good and bad, to restrain oneself. I would hope to be open-minded about the subject. Not everyone who enjoys collage can afford to collect originals. In addition, I often get ideas about how to combine separate works into a composite digital design, exploring in the process a distinctive aesthetic resonance that might not be discovered in other ways. I occasionally imagine how one of my miniatures would look as a super-enlargement, or I envision an exhibition of large canvases created from Gicl\u00e9e blow-ups of small works. No doubt, there is an appropriate place for digital technology in the medium, whether on the front- or back-end of the process. The digital image is, of course, the stock in trade of any artist with an active presence on the Internet. That comes with its own set of issues that I plan to cover in my next discussion. Meanwhile, I hope to preserve my emphasis on a traditional methodology and observe how other collage practitioners adopt emerging technology to enhance their fine-art investigations.
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Microcosmic Moments<\/em><\/strong>
\ncompilation of nine miniatures by J A Dixon
\nproposed digital concept, variable in dimensions<\/p>\n

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Modular Zowee<\/em><\/strong>
\ncomposite of collage details by J A Dixon
\nproposed digital concept, variable in dimensions<\/p>\n

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Mystery Solved (detail)<\/em><\/strong>
\nsuper-enlargement of collage detail by J A Dixon
\nproposed digital concept, variable in dimensions<\/p>\n

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Mystery Solved (set of four cards)<\/strong>
\nmerchandise with collage details by J A Dixon
\nproposed digital reproductions, 5.75 x 4.5 inches<\/p>\n

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Broadband Access<\/em><\/strong>
\ndigital montage by J A Dixon
\neditorial illustration for ACUTA Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI believe that it is better to be receptive to correction than to be satisfied with one\u2019s own imperfection, and to think that one is oh so original!\u201d \u2014 Piet Mondrian As I mentioned in a welcome statement from over a year ago (and perhaps more recently), I have nothing against digital collage, although I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1,157,110,37,36,18,35,109,55,86,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14666,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/14666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}