{"id":7768,"date":"2016-10-07T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T01:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:33:31","slug":"collage-miniature-collaboration-number-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/7768","title":{"rendered":"Collage Miniature Collaboration Number Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cA random interaction \u2014 someone who says something to you on a street corner \u2014 is often enough to set off a cascade of creativity.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Carrie Barron <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TwoStartsForKraftByDixon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TwoStartsForKraftByDixon.jpg\" title=\"my starts for Stefan\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"4\" align=right size-full wp-image-7789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TwoStartsForKraftByDixon.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TwoStartsForKraftByDixon-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deft completion of two \u201cstarts\u201d on book covers by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stefankraft.de\/en\/\" title=\"the English-language version of his webiste\" target=\"_blank\">Stefan Kraft<\/a> has been worth the wait. The German artist has brought his characteristic design restraint to our collaborative exercise, reinforcing the limited color scheme and textural qualities handed off to him without overloading the compositions. <em>Nice work, Stefan!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have come to see these types of collaborations as providing a creative springboard for the partner, rather than as a true interactive experience. The latter kind of effort is more difficult to define and initiate, but offers great potential for collage artists. I am currently working on such a project with fellow Kentuckian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/artists-collage\/r-h-hunt\" title=\"archived here at this site\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Hugh Hunt<\/a>, and I expect to highlight our mutual result in the very near future.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Untitled-ection_DixonKraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Untitled-ection_DixonKraft.jpg\" alt=\"A collage miniature collaboration by John Andrew Dixon and Stefan Kraft\" title=\"A collage miniature collaboration by J A Dixon and S Kraft\" width=\"300\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Untitled-ection_DixonKraft.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Untitled-ection_DixonKraft-300x416.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 448px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Untitled (*ection)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\na collage miniature collaboration by J A Dixon and S Kraft<br \/>\n(start by Dixon, finish by Kraft)<br \/>\n5 x 7 inches, collection of J A Dixon <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ANotableAdvance_DixonKraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ANotableAdvance_DixonKraft.jpg\" alt=\"anotableadvance_dixonkraft\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ANotableAdvance_DixonKraft.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ANotableAdvance_DixonKraft-300x420.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 472px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>A Notable Advance<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\na collage miniature collaboration by J A Dixon and S Kraft<br \/>\n(start by Dixon, finish by Kraft)<br \/>\n5 x 7 inches, collection of S Kraft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA random interaction \u2014 someone who says something to you on a street corner \u2014 is often enough to set off a cascade of creativity.\u201d \u2014 Carrie Barron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,160,18,191],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768"}],"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=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8776,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions\/8776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}