{"id":5689,"date":"2015-10-21T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2024-11-08T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:40:28","slug":"ninety-naughty-gnats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5689","title":{"rendered":"Ninety Naughty Gnats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA special thank you to Helen Reiss, who brought me this crazy manuscript and thought I might like to illustrate it. I had a better idea!\u201d
\n\u2013 Allan Bealy
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<\/a> I am pleased to share an announcement from Allan Bealy<\/a> that his newest publication is available\u2014 ABCurdities: A Collage Alphabet<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, and it is an honor to be part of an outstanding group that includes Allan, Matthew Rose<\/a>, Ted Tollefson<\/a>, Nikki Soppelsa<\/a>, Zach Collins<\/a>, Marc Deb<\/a>, Frank Voigt<\/a>, Musta Fior<\/a>, Michael Tunk<\/a>, and many other fine collage practitioners. Allan assigned 26 collage artists from around the world a letter of the alphabet and asked each of us to interpret a corresponding absurdist poem by Helen Reiss. The delightful result is now available for online purchase!<\/a><\/p>\n

Helen\u2019s wild verse for \u201cN\u201d offered a wealth of associations and challenged me to illustrate the perfect level of \u201cvisual naughtiness.\u201d I also wanted to embed the letterform, but not in a way that would be too obvious. Do you see it? Some may not. I find it fascinating to observe how each of us used her poems as a catalyst for creativity, while investigating an individual approach to the medium \u2014 one more example of how collaboration can enhance the artistic process. A tip o\u2019 the cap to the designer\/compiler!<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

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N<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\na contribution to ABCurdities: A Collage Alphabet<\/em><\/a>
\n8 x 8 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cA special thank you to Helen Reiss, who brought me this crazy manuscript and thought I might like to illustrate it. I had a better idea!\u201d \u2013 Allan Bealy  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,99,65,1,145,167,18,54,146,101,20,139,141,86,104,132,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689"}],"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=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18885,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/18885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}