{"id":4886,"date":"2015-02-11T22:32:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T02:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2015-09-01T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:08:59","slug":"bulls-eye-nosegay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4886","title":{"rendered":"Bull\u2019s-eye Nosegay"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cTo get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that\u2019s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Ethan Hawke<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetargetpracticeproject.tumblr.com\/post\/120753361770\/bulls-eye-nosegay-collage-by-john-andrew-dixon\" title=\"the tumblr site\" target=\"_blank\">The Target Practice Project<\/a> shows no signs of winding down. Two of the vintage targets from <a href=\"http:\/\/thetargetpracticeproject.blogspot.com\/p\/about-project.html\" title=\"About the Project\" target=\"_blank\">L T Holmes<\/a> were still in my possession, so I started another piece last summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/thetargetpracticeproject.blogspot.com\/p\/want-target.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/TargetPracticeTarget_thumb.jpg\" title=\"The internationally famous Target Practice target\" width=\"106\" height=\"162\" hspace=\"17\" vspace=\"9\" align=right size-full wp-image-2874\" \/><\/a> It had a stubborn inertia of its own that repeatedly would cause me to set it aside until the next phase came into focus. It\u2019s funny how a certain artistic progression can have \u201ca mind of its own,\u201d so to speak, and others can fall into place like clockwork. One of the things I appreciate most about collage is getting into an effortless \u201cflow,\u201d but there is something to be said about having to dig deeper to pull the solution from a more difficult effort. In those situations, a different kind of fulfillment is the reward \u2014 the sense that I have pushed by craft to a new level. It may not seem as joyful, but I feel just as fortunate to be involved in something I love to do. And it makes me stop and think that perhaps, when that easier process is flowing, it could be the exact moment to mix it up, take a risk, lose my footing, defy the comfort, and pay the price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dixon_BullseyeNosegay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dixon_BullseyeNosegay.jpg\" alt=\"Bull\u2019s-eye Nosegay ~ J A Dixon\" title=\"Bull\u2019s-eye Nosegay ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dixon_BullseyeNosegay.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dixon_BullseyeNosegay-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dixon_BullseyeNosegay-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 366px; margin-bottom: 55px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Bull\u2019s-eye Nosegay<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nmixed-media collage on framed panel<br \/>\nvintage target from L T Holmes<br \/>\n17 x 17 inches, currently not for sale<br \/>\nfeatured at <a href=\"http:\/\/thetargetpracticeproject.tumblr.com\/image\/120753361770\" target=\"_blank\">The Target Practice Project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that\u2019s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.\u201d \u2014 Ethan Hawke The Target Practice Project shows no signs of winding down. Two of the vintage targets from L T Holmes were still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,1,11,18,53,111,54,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886"}],"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=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}