{"id":5828,"date":"2015-12-23T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2015-12-25T12:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T16:47:01","slug":"tender-and-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5828","title":{"rendered":"Tender and Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cArt, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Stephen Sondhiem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was in the \u201cSeasonal Zone,\u201d listening to music and making a batch of hand-made greetings and collage miniatures. I began to recycle Christmas cards from previous years, and I had the idea of trying to visually merge two different but similar images. Nothing seemed to go right as my technique played out. One cannot anticipate nor contrive the \u201cfortunate accidents\u201d inherent in the medium. The resulting effect reminds me of an aging fresco, as if an artist had painted a Madonna and Child over another, with the decay of time and weather taking over. I rarely think too much about these things in process, with reflection arriving later. I especially enjoy when others make observations and symbolic associations of their own. Overall, I think my sweet obsession with collage may be about trying to bring some kind of harmony out of the sense of disorder that pervades much of modern perception, although I should hesitate to generalize about my personal state of being and apply it to the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_Xmas2015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_Xmas2015.jpg\" alt=\"a Christmas collage experiment by John Andrew Dixon\" title=\"Tender and Wild ~ a Christmas collage experiment by J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_Xmas2015.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_Xmas2015-300x404.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 481px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Tender and Wild<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7 x 9.5 inches<br \/>\nprivate collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArt, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.\u201d \u2013 Stephen Sondhiem I was in the \u201cSeasonal Zone,\u201d listening to music and making a batch of hand-made greetings and collage miniatures. I began to recycle Christmas cards from previous years, and I had the idea of trying to visually merge two different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,52,119,50,18,35,46,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828"}],"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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}