{"id":5789,"date":"2015-12-02T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2015-12-11T18:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:30:31","slug":"core-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5789","title":{"rendered":"Core Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBefore I can discard the verse, I have to write it… I can\u2019t discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.\u201d
\n\u2013 Leonard Cohen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I admire many of the more prolific collage artists \u2014 Kroll<\/a>, Rose<\/a>, Bealy<\/a>, Tidwell<\/a>, Flowers<\/a>, Collins<\/a>, to name only a few \u2014 but there can be a significant contrast between \u201cwork ethic\u201d and the contrived productivity made trendy by social networking. It was interesting when Plowman<\/a> was climbing the mountain of \u201cCollage A Day.\u201d Now one has to pass the corpses being stacked beside the route up the peak. Most of us can tell the difference between a display of ongoing professionalism and the indiscriminate output of those with a high need for public approval. That being said, someone who is a blogger on \u201call things collage\u201d might carelessly tread into the latter while neglecting the former. If I do, or if this site lapses into pretension, I challenge you to call me on it. Please. <\/em>Nevertheless, we should all keep in mind that the nature of the medium invites the floating of one\u2019s work for an appropriate give-and-take interaction. Offering intuition and spontaneity free rein means that often we can be too close to the culminating artifact to perceive many of the symbolic connections or nuanced associations, and that takes feedback. It may take other sets of eyes to tell us whether the gem sparkles or not. Our handy interweb makes it easy to lavish \u201clikes\u201d on one another in lieu of the genuine constructive criticism we require to fortify our studio rituals. Are we finally ready to move past mutual thumbs-upping and to become more candid with each other?<\/p>\n

\"Core<\/a><\/p>\n

Core Memories<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\n4.875 x 7 inches
\n 
\nPurchase this artwork!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBefore I can discard the verse, I have to write it… I can\u2019t discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,99,168,75,18,20,21,93,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789"}],"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=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}