{"id":7641,"date":"2016-09-09T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:38:38","slug":"a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/7641","title":{"rendered":"A closer look . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few detailed images of my repurposed chair, Good Morning, Mrs. Bradshaw.<\/em> I knew from the outset that I would not be satisfied to achieve a \u201cmerely aesthetic\u201d result, even though I am usually pleased if my collage artwork successfully does no more than that. I sought to visually communicate a symbolic tension that evoked my feelings as youngster, caught between the clarity of adult expectations and the fuzzy pleasure of indulging a literary genre that was generally frowned upon in the 1950s. I include the name of my first-grade teacher in the title. She was probably the first person outside my family who recognized and encouraged my creative interests.
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The project took on a life of its own when I became convinced that it was
\nfinally time to exploit some of my vintage typesetting specimens.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My concept rests on the visual contrast between \u201cscholastic\u201d and \u201cvernacular\u201d
\nimagery \u2014 what a \u201950s schoolboy was supposed to read and what he was not.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My desire to preserve the circular \u201crivets\u201d that held the wooden seat and back
\nslats to a metal structure presented challenges of collage artisanship.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A fun, rewarding part of the process was to capture the youthful energy of
\nreading comics and to avoid obvious narrative references at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for your interest and attention. Please let me know what you think<\/a> of my work, this blogsite, or the medium of collage in general. Comment here or through TCM at Facebook<\/em><\/a>. Stop back again!
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Here are a few detailed images of my repurposed chair, Good Morning, Mrs. Bradshaw. I knew from the outset that I would not be satisfied to achieve a \u201cmerely aesthetic\u201d result, even though I am usually pleased if my collage artwork successfully does no more than that. I sought to visually communicate a symbolic tension […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,22,18,111,35,148,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641"}],"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=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8780,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/8780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}