{"id":5174,"date":"2015-05-16T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2015-06-16T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T00:33:39","slug":"white-space-aint-a-negative-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5174","title":{"rendered":"White space ain\u2019t a negative thing."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cLife is trying things to see if they work.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Ray Bradbury<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A familiar approach to collage makes use of elements positioned on a field, activating the \u201cwhite space\u201d with a typical figure\/ground relationship. Often the working substrate is carefully selected for inherent visual interest or aesthetic qualities. Like a visage with character, a single piece of \u201cancient\u201d stock can speak volumes on its own. There are many other ways for \u201cnegative space\u201d to play a key part in collage artwork. For me, experimenting with small studies in my journal can suggest a different twist, with the potential for exploitation in a more finished composition.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dixon_UntitledIRA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dixon_UntitledIRA.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon_Untitled(IRA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dixon_UntitledIRA.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dixon_UntitledIRA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dixon_UntitledIRA-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 330px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Untitled (IRA)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\njournal experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n4.375 x 4.25 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLife is trying things to see if they work.\u201d \u2013 Ray Bradbury A familiar approach to collage makes use of elements positioned on a field, activating the \u201cwhite space\u201d with a typical figure\/ground relationship. Often the working substrate is carefully selected for inherent visual interest or aesthetic qualities. Like a visage with character, a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,52,18,68,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174"}],"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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}