{"id":6950,"date":"2016-06-19T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2016-07-11T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T15:48:40","slug":"merely-a-metabolic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/6950","title":{"rendered":"Merely a metabolic event?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m a \u2018what if\u2019 person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Kevin Costner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Process is everything with some artists, and I respectfully get that. Experimental spontaneity within the small format is a vital and meaningful aspect of my art, but when I scale up for a larger work, I apply that experience and insight toward an end result \u2014 something more planned, with the intention to provoke a positive response in another \u2014 <em>an agreeable product,<\/em> if you will. So, what about the individual artwork that has \u201cmerely\u201d contributed to the overall creative metabolism of an artistic investigation, and, as a stand-alone work, is little more than a \u201cglorious failure,\u201d in the final analysis? <\/p>\n<p>I wish I knew how to answer that dangling question. Obviously, not every collage \u201csketch\u201d is significant in its own right, but if the potential exists for it to engage a particular person, and that person wants to observe it repeatedly, to discover if it has a few secrets others have missed \u2014 how can anyone diminish its intrinsic value?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dixon_Metabolism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dixon_Metabolism.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon_Metabolism\" width=\"333\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dixon_Metabolism.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dixon_Metabolism-300x382.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 455px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Metabolism<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7.375 x 9.5 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=7MY37SW46NDFW\" title=\"BUY NOW through PayPal.\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a \u2018what if\u2019 person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.\u201d \u2013 Kevin Costner Process is everything with some artists, and I respectfully get that. Experimental spontaneity within the small format is a vital and meaningful aspect of my art, but when I scale up for a larger work, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,168,52,18,111,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950"}],"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=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}