{"id":5995,"date":"2016-01-17T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2016-01-20T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:44:18","slug":"details-from-pearallelograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5995","title":{"rendered":"details from Pearallelograms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity.\u201d
\n\u2014 Paul Rand
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One of my first large-scale collage concepts was an artwork I called Pearallel Universe<\/a><\/em>. When it was purchased by a regional health care system to hang in a new patient facility, I temporarily set aside the \u201cvisual pun.\u201d After creating Pearental Discretion<\/a><\/em> last year, I continued to accumulate images in anticipation of another takeoff on the pear theme<\/a>. I also had been looking to break out of the conventional rectilinear format<\/a> by exploring thumbnail concepts with polygonal shapes. When the parallelogram repeatedly occurred in my tiny sketches, the two ideas merged, unsurprisingly, as Pearallelograms<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This latest collage construction is another attempt to liberate collage from the typical \u201cframed-behind-glass\u201d approach, to recapture the medium\u2019s painterly roots with an exposed surface that can stand on its own, and to introduce a more three-dimensional context that presents the end result as an \u201cartifact.\u201d I would hope that I had a bit of success at meeting these objectives. So far, the piece has been well received.<\/p>\n

In what is becoming a ritual post-mortem for bigger collage artworks, I have repeatedly cropped the composition to explore and internalize aspects that may not have been apparent to me during creative formation. It is something I recommend to fortify intuition. To be honest, I would rather not be thinking consciously about the design dynamics<\/a> in process, but I can only maintain that orientation by imposing a rational critique on my work after the fact. This sometimes leads to the closing refinement of an unfinished piece. More importantly, it also provides a stronger foundation for spontaneity in the future.
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My goal was to use many pears \u2014 as design elements,
for thematic rhythm, and as devices for a surreal touch.<\/em><\/p>\n

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As elements, the chosen thematic objects should oscillate
between representation and abstraction.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Diagonals with pears as \u201cend points\u201d were applied to
three negative areas that needed more spatial activation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The last pear image was positioned between profiles and
resonates with a more literal treatment at the very top.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The final subject was \u201cbuilt\u201d with an actual dried iris petal,
the torn image of a peacock feather, and a cut-paper stem.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for visiting! Forgive me if today\u2019s entry is too verbose, because I generally try to avoid that. If, however, you don\u2019t mind if I wax wordy, please register and comment here<\/a> to let me know. I promise to reply.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity.\u201d \u2014 Paul Rand   One of my first large-scale collage concepts was an artwork I called Pearallel Universe. When it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,1,157,173,22,18,111,35,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995"}],"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=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8092,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions\/8092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}