{"id":7106,"date":"2016-06-26T19:42:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:52:58","slug":"collage-miniature-collaboration-number-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/7106","title":{"rendered":"Collage Miniature Collaboration Number Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI love improvisation. You can\u2019t blame it on the writers. You can\u2019t blame it on direction. You can\u2019t blame it on the camera guy… It\u2019s you. You\u2019re on. You\u2019ve got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you\u2019ve got.\u201d
\n\u2014 Jonathan Winters<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing about improvisation is that it\u2019s not about what you say. It\u2019s listening to what other people say. It\u2019s about what you hear.\u201d
\n\u2014 Paul Merton
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Two of the things that distinguish the artwork of Mary Madelyn Carney<\/em><\/strong><\/a> are keen visual contrasts and an imaginative approach to choosing ingredients. Naturally, she brings these qualities into her collage collaborations, so I wanted to send her a couple of bold \u201cstarts\u201d on book covers that might play to her strengths. In hindsight, perhaps I did not provide her as much \u201celbow room\u201d as the ones she sent me<\/a>. Collage collaboration is quite a bit like two actors doing a scene. The key is to enhance each other\u2019s performance, and to avoid stepping on lines or physically upstaging the partner. Actually, it is even more like live improvisation, especially when it is understood that the result will be shared publicly, because the success of a collaboration depends on how well you \u201clisten,\u201d and very little on imposing your own thing. <\/p>\n

I was delighted with the way that Mary responded. Her intuitive decisions blended skillful symbolic fusions with an evident personal quality, and the aesthetic nuances were superb. That the two of us might interact on the same \u201cwavelength\u201d was first suggested to me some time ago by veteran collaborator Allan Bealy<\/a>, but I had not anticipated just how conscientious she would be with our joint venture. We may have to join forces again for another \u201cjam session.\u201d
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\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Robin\u2019s Chest<\/em><\/strong>
\na collage collaboration by J A Dixon and M M Carney
\n(start by Dixon, finish by Carney)
\n5 x 7 inches, collection of M M Carney<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Pickling My Husband<\/em><\/strong>
\na collage collaboration by J A Dixon and M M Carney
\n(start by Dixon, finish by Carney)
\n5 x 7 inches, collection of J A Dixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI love improvisation. You can\u2019t blame it on the writers. You can\u2019t blame it on direction. You can\u2019t blame it on the camera guy… It\u2019s you. You\u2019re on. You\u2019ve got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you\u2019ve got.\u201d \u2014 Jonathan Winters \u201cThe thing about improvisation is that it\u2019s not about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,65,22,18,130,190],"tags":[155,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106"}],"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=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}