{"id":5239,"date":"2015-06-29T08:06:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2015-07-01T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T12:27:24","slug":"another-trip-collage-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5239","title":{"rendered":"another \u201ctrip collage\u201d exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe absence of limitations is the enemy of art.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Orson Welles<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is another journal experiment based on ingredient constraints. It has a more abstract emphasis, in contrast to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5179\" target=\"_blank\">the previous example<\/a>. There are numerous ways to impose this instructive limitation. Some collage artists have been known to create a composition restricted to the random scraps found on their work surface. Others make it into collaborative play, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/3689\" target=\"_blank\">swapping an envelope of ingredients<\/a> within which to work. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1100\" target=\"_blank\">A speed requirement<\/a> will reveal more aspects of creative decision making and give rise to other insights. Paradoxically, there is no limit to how limitations can unlock the freedom of artistic expression.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dixon_TripCollage_2015b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dixon_TripCollage_2015b.jpg\" alt=\"journal experiment ~ John Andrew Dixon\" title=\"a \u201ctrip collage\u201d journal experiment ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 321px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>results of a \u201ctrip collage\u201d exercise<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\njournal experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7.25 x 5.25 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe absence of limitations is the enemy of art.\u201d \u2013 Orson Welles Here is another journal experiment based on ingredient constraints. It has a more abstract emphasis, in contrast to the previous example. There are numerous ways to impose this instructive limitation. Some collage artists have been known to create a composition restricted to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,52,22,18,68,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239"}],"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=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}