{"id":3851,"date":"2014-04-30T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T22:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2014-07-07T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T00:41:14","slug":"this-artist-is-not-coasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/3851","title":{"rendered":"This artist is not coasting . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life\u2019s problems.\u201d
\n\u2014 Homer Simpson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday was my birthday, and I was rocked by the generosity of a fellow practitioner, Ted Tollefson<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. A veteran collaborator, he is also one of the more versatile individuals currently laboring in the medium. Like many collage artists, Tollefson explores a number of different approaches, but has recently established his mastery of the collage-on-beer-coaster format.<\/p>\n

I was not fully aware until today that he has been producing a coaster-based collage for each of his facebook friends. That means hundreds of miniatures in a relatively short time frame, and, from what I can tell, he calibrates the visual method for each intended recipient. Given my expressed fondness for personal miniatures<\/a>, TT is a kindred spirit indeed. He has crafted a real gem for my gift coaster. Everything about it \u2014 scale, colors, composition, textures, choice of ingredients \u2014 are simply outstanding. Thank you, sir, for your kindness. Keep up the superb effort. You are a true heir to Kurt Schwitters. Merz lives!<\/em><\/p>\n

Take a look at just a few examples of his creative output and you might share my high regard for this mushrooming body of intriguing work.
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April 29<\/em><\/strong>
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\nby T Tollefson for J A Dixon<\/p>\n

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Personal miniatures on beer coasters by Ted Tollefson.
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\u201cTo alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life\u2019s problems.\u201d \u2014 Homer Simpson Yesterday was my birthday, and I was rocked by the generosity of a fellow practitioner, Ted Tollefson. A veteran collaborator, he is also one of the more versatile individuals currently laboring in the medium. Like many collage artists, Tollefson explores […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,119,5,63,104,9,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851"}],"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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4113,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/4113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}