{"id":7806,"date":"2016-10-14T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2016-11-24T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:49:25","slug":"journal-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/7806","title":{"rendered":"the necessity of journal experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cYou must train your intuition. You must trust the small voice inside which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Ingrid Bergman <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Believe it or not, collage-miniature experiments in my sketch journal have become less about visual results than they have about intuitive choices and conditioning my sequential responses. If one can internalize this process as a smooth, nonjudgmental flow, then it is possible to bring it to bear with more rational, formal concepts. This will help avoid bogging down in an undesirable, second-guessing mode. I hope that makes sense. If not, I promise that I will keep trying to articulate this important aspect of creativity.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/UntitledOatManMountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/UntitledOatManMountain.jpg\" alt=\"a journal experiment by John Andrew Dixon, collage artist, Danville, Kentucky\" title=\"a journal experiment by J A Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/UntitledOatManMountain.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/UntitledOatManMountain-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 310px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Untitled (Oat Man Mountain)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\na journal experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n5 x 4.5 inches<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledPerPound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledPerPound.jpg\" alt=\"a journal experiment by John Andrew Dixon, collage artist, Danville, Kentucky\" title=\"a journal experiment by J A Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledPerPound.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledPerPound-300x309.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 360px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Untitled (Per Pound!)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\na journal experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7.75 x 8 inches<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_Untitledpierced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_Untitledpierced.jpg\" alt=\"a journal experiment by John Andrew Dixon, collage artist, Danville, Kentucky\" title=\"a journal experiment by J A Dixon\" width=\"240\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_Untitledpierced.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_Untitledpierced-300x393.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 366px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Untitled (pierced)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\na journal experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n3 x 4 inches<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledDBC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledDBC.jpg\" alt=\"a journal experiment by John Andrew Dixon, collage artist, Danville, Kentucky\" title=\"a journal experiment by J A Dixon\" width=\"350\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledDBC.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledDBC-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledDBC-768x451.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 255px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Untitled (DBC)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\na journal experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n9 x 5 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou must train your intuition. You must trust the small voice inside which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.\u201d \u2014 Ingrid Bergman Believe it or not, collage-miniature experiments in my sketch journal have become less about visual results than they have about intuitive choices and conditioning my sequential responses. If one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,18,68,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806"}],"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=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}