{"id":5312,"date":"2015-07-16T08:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2015-08-05T22:48:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T02:48:40","slug":"selecting-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5312","title":{"rendered":"selecting details . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe do have repeated patterns that arise, in differing ways for different people, every time we create. But how do you get excited by the downturns and turn this into a positive experience?\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Lyne Marshall<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After I finish a larger artwork and its temporary or permanent disposition is settled, I have this tendency to focus on the perceived flaws, the missed opportunities, or that appealing ingredient \u201cleft on the cutting room floor.\u201d Diverting my observation to the areas that I prefer, I crop into the design, looking for interesting sub-compositions. I tell myself that I should create spin-off prints or note cards based of a series of details \u2014 it must be my built-in bias toward the miniature. In almost every case, I put market-driven notions aside and begin something new. Objective scrutiny usually becomes a catalyst to the creative process. The cycle continues.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailA.jpg\" alt=\"detail from Selective Fusion ~ John Andrew Dixon\" title=\"detail from Selective Fusion ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"400\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailA-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 351px; margin-bottom: 11px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailB.jpg\" alt=\"detail from Selective Fusion ~ John Andrew Dixon\" title=\"detail from Selective Fusion ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"400\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailB.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Dixon_SelecFusion_DetailB-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 372px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>two details from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Dixon_SelectiveFusion.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Selective Fusion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage on structured panel by J A Dixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe do have repeated patterns that arise, in differing ways for different people, every time we create. But how do you get excited by the downturns and turn this into a positive experience?\u201d \u2014 Lyne Marshall After I finish a larger artwork and its temporary or permanent disposition is settled, I have this tendency to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,22,18,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312"}],"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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5420,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}