{"id":4494,"date":"2014-11-25T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T02:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2016-01-10T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:14:14","slug":"the-other-doorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4494","title":{"rendered":"The Other Doorway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cArt comes out of art, and you are just another stone in the wall.\u201d
\n\u2014 Richard Serra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My \u201cPartner In All Things\u201d has outdone herself again. She prepared an outstanding dinner last night in celebration of our grandson\u2019s 23rd birthday, including \u201cgame stew\u201d with rabbit and venison, plus the tastiest cherry-raspberry pie ever.\"cherry-raspberry<\/a> As for my part, I completed a collage miniature for him that took off on a phrase he said to me over a year ago while unraveling some difficult life choices. I am very proud of the young man, for many reasons having nothing to do with his being a great source of encouragement as I continue to create work that puzzles a majority of art buyers. Some time ago, L T Holmes<\/a> introduced her online followers to the idea of producing a collage \u201cunder the influence\u201d of a fellow artist. I admire her for elevating it to an exercise in perceptual focus. It is good to be mindful of influences, because they are not necessarily at a level of awareness. Today\u2019s featured image is an example of how I have come to recognize the unconscious influence of peers after a work is finished. I am not sheepish about admitting it. Inviting the artistic strengths of others to rub off a bit is why we regularly partake of the excellence in our medium. The collage artworks of my friend Connie Beale<\/a>, a retailer and accomplished interior designer, touch on the irrational aspects of environments and room-like enclosures with effects that are unsettling yet also whimsical. The prolific Eugenia Loli<\/a> consistently captures the surreal potential of spatial contrasts and arresting juxtapositions. Perhaps a shade of both can be found in my grandson\u2019s gift.
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\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Other Doorway<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\n6.25 x 7.75 inches
\ncollection of J M Strock, Jr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cArt comes out of art, and you are just another stone in the wall.\u201d \u2014 Richard Serra My \u201cPartner In All Things\u201d has outdone herself again. She prepared an outstanding dinner last night in celebration of our grandson\u2019s 23rd birthday, including \u201cgame stew\u201d with rabbit and venison, plus the tastiest cherry-raspberry pie ever. As for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,1,138,119,13,136,18,53,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"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=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}