{"id":9525,"date":"2017-07-05T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2017-08-13T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T03:02:45","slug":"their-desperate-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/9525","title":{"rendered":"Their Desperate State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I perceive aesthetic currents of spatial counterpoint, color harmony, and design unity, I find it nearly impossible to rationalize most of my individual collage compositions. As in most improvisational activity, there is sufficient value in the opportunity for mystery, surprise, discovery, and joy \u2014 plus, of course, the subjective response of each receptive observer.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dixon_TheirDesperateState.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dixon_TheirDesperateState.jpg\" title=\"Their Desperate State ~ J A Dixon\" alt=\"Their Desperate State ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"268\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dixon_TheirDesperateState.jpg 536w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dixon_TheirDesperateState-300x448.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 419px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Their Desperate State<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature on book cover by J A Dixon<br \/>\n5.875 x 9.25 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=L9JT4EZCNHKZU\" title=\"BUY NOW through PayPal.\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I perceive aesthetic currents of spatial counterpoint, color harmony, and design unity, I find it nearly impossible to rationalize most of my individual collage compositions. As in most improvisational activity, there is sufficient value in the opportunity for mystery, surprise, discovery, and joy \u2014 plus, of course, the subjective response of each receptive observer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525"}],"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=9525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9554,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}