{"id":6062,"date":"2016-01-24T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:38:30","slug":"are-there-any-rules-for-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/6062","title":{"rendered":"Are there any rules for collage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cEver have one of those collages where every time you add something, it just makes it more difficult to finish?\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 T R Flowers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/terry%20r.%20flowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terry Flowers<\/a> alludes to in his recent question to collage artists is certainly an ever-present concern for a minimalist, but even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/maximalism_minimalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maximalist<\/a> can find it difficult to discover the proper conclusion for a collage. Some say that the medium of collage has no rules. I think of it more as the rules changing in front of us until a balanced resolution takes shape, and then, perhaps arbitrarily, victory can be declared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dixon_UnitCitation.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dixon_UnitCitation.jpg\" alt=\"Unit Citation ~ J A Dixon\" title=\"Unit Citation ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"415\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dixon_UnitCitation.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dixon_UnitCitation-300x374.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 448px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Unit Citation<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7.5 x 9.375 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=C7BSNXDZ7287C\" title=\"BUY NOW through PayPal.\" style=\"display:visible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purchase this artwork!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEver have one of those collages where every time you add something, it just makes it more difficult to finish?\u201d \u2013 T R Flowers What Terry Flowers alludes to in his recent question to collage artists is certainly an ever-present concern for a minimalist, but even a maximalist can find it difficult to discover the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,18,78,678,93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062"}],"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=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16506,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/16506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}