{"id":5157,"date":"2015-05-02T21:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:01:21","slug":"drawing-out-the-unfulfilled-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5157","title":{"rendered":"Drawing out the unfulfilled possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am a great believer in the primacy of drawing as a means of engaging the world and understanding what you\u2019re looking at.\u201d
\n\u2013 Milton Glaser<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhy do you make collage artwork when you can draw?\u201d People who broach the subject rarely come at it quite so directly, but even if they did, the question would not be any easier to answer. To begin with, I do indeed draw, and have since the dawn of memory, and I bring that ability to my work as an illustrator, portrait artist, watercolorist, and wood engraver. My enthusiasm for collage is rooted in something else \u2014 an impulse not entirely clear to me. I am grateful for all my talents, but I was educated and trained as a designer, and the practice has done more than enable me to create a life as an independent creative professional. It has become embedded in my consciousness. Decades of visual decisions have informed my responsive intuition. Collage is part design experimentation, part painterly expression, part artisanship, and part meditation. It is always a probing beyond expectations, an exploration of potentials, a harnessing of associations in flux. It can be the result of self assignment, but the most exciting effects often grow out of ritual. For me, it is never disconnected from what is taking form in my current journal. Not true artist\u2019s sketchbooks (much as I have always hope they would evolve toward), they inevitably become a record of verbal and visual thoughts or non-thoughts. Some of my journal experiments combine techniques and mediums in ways that have not yet found manifestation outside their covers. Perhaps some day the question will be: \u201cWhy do you also draw in your collage artwork?\u201d
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Untitled (necklace)<\/em><\/strong>
\njournal experiment by J A Dixon
\n9.5 x 6.25 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am a great believer in the primacy of drawing as a means of engaging the world and understanding what you\u2019re looking at.\u201d \u2013 Milton Glaser \u201cWhy do you make collage artwork when you can draw?\u201d People who broach the subject rarely come at it quite so directly, but even if they did, the question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,52,18,68,91,35,55,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157"}],"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=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}