{"id":5837,"date":"2015-12-16T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2015-12-26T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T01:43:30","slug":"collage-experiments-as-gift-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5837","title":{"rendered":"Collage experiments as gift art"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMan himself is mute, and it is the image that speaks. For it is obvious that the image alone can keep pace with nature.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Boris Pasternak <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have come to the point where nearly all of my December gifts are hand-crafted items, many of which feature experimental images of one sort or another. Some end up being studies for larger works. Shown below are a couple of little artifacts that have resulted so far from my lead-up to the holidays \u2014 examples of how gift art can hover between descriptive categories. Both are more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/haus-cards\" target=\"_blank\">greeting-card<\/a> covers, but not advanced enough to be called true collage miniatures. Intrinsic value is always a matter of opinion, but, at any rate, people usually appreciate being invited into the artistic process.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberOne.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5841\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberOne.jpg\" title=\"collage artifact by J ADixon\" alt=\"collage artifact by John Andrew Dixon\" width=\"222\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberOne.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberOne-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a> &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberTwo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberTwo.jpg\" title=\"collage artifact by J ADixon\" alt=\"collage artifact by John Andrew Dixon\" width=\"180\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberTwo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dixon_XmasMiniNumberTwo-300x311.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 188px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><em><strong>two small, year-end gifts<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\ncollage artifacts by J A Dixon<br \/>\n(click to view larger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMan himself is mute, and it is the image that speaks. For it is obvious that the image alone can keep pace with nature.\u201d \u2014 Boris Pasternak I have come to the point where nearly all of my December gifts are hand-crafted items, many of which feature experimental images of one sort or another. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,52,119,50,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837"}],"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=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5860,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions\/5860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}