{"id":3190,"date":"2013-12-14T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2013-12-14T19:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T23:24:06","slug":"from-my-haus-of-cards-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/3190","title":{"rendered":"From my \u2018Haus of Cards\u2019 archive . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAt Hallmark, the approach to creating emotional, relational communication for anonymous others is captured by the phrase \u2018universal specificity,\u2019 which suggests that people\u2019s emotions are essentially universal, and that the industry can meet the nation\u2019s social expression needs by customizing these core insights.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Emily West<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is, of course, nothing evil about the greeting card industry, but I have never felt comfortable with store-bought messages and decided to give them up early in life. After many years of making original birthday cards, I intensively produced over a thousand small, hand-crafted designs between 1999 and 2003. These visual investigations also served as personal greetings to people I knew. They provided the foundation for my entire approach to creating collage miniatures.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_ThatRedDress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_ThatRedDress.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon_ThatRedDress\" width=\"250\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_ThatRedDress.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_ThatRedDress-300x520.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 467px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>That Red Dress<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of B Palmer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_Astermandarquoise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_Astermandarquoise.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon_Astermandarquoise\" width=\"360\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_Astermandarquoise.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_Astermandarquoise-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 298px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Astermandarquoise<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of R Crabtree<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_SweetlyTerie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_SweetlyTerie.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon_SweetlyTerie\" width=\"375\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_SweetlyTerie.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_SweetlyTerie-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 311px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Sweetly Terie<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of T Strock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_NestedPair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_NestedPair.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon_NestedPair\" width=\"350\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_NestedPair.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dixon_NestedPair-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 328px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Nested Pair<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of J Hellyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt Hallmark, the approach to creating emotional, relational communication for anonymous others is captured by the phrase \u2018universal specificity,\u2019 which suggests that people\u2019s emotions are essentially universal, and that the industry can meet the nation\u2019s social expression needs by customizing these core insights.\u201d \u2014 Emily West There is, of course, nothing evil about the greeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190"}],"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=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}