{"id":9670,"date":"2017-10-09T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:08:19","slug":"9670","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/9670","title":{"rendered":"Horse Tail Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cQue no haya novedad.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 ancient Catalan saying<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With my new \u201cCrafted Series,\u201d I am paying particular attention to capturing a dominant mood of mystery, surprise, and joy, while keeping the process as spontaneous as possible. These are not calculated artworks, even as I make an effort to hold dark undertones at bay. As with most of my compositions, there is an ordered structure, although not preconceived or based on a \u201cpreliminary layout.\u201d The feelings to be evoked will arise as much from color choices (intuitively selected, rather than consciously built), as they will from the subjects of the assembled ingredients themselves. The example featured today was created with an individual recipient in mind, as with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/9652\" target=\"_blank\">That Red Boot<\/a>.<\/em> From here I shall proceed with enthusiasm to a fuller series of slightly larger pieces. They will be made available to people interested in adding collage artwork to their collections. Stay tuned!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dixon_HorseTailReasons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dixon_HorseTailReasons.jpg\" title=\"Horse Tail Reasons ~ J A Dixon\" alt=\"Horse Tail Reasons ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dixon_HorseTailReasons.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dixon_HorseTailReasons-300x386.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 447px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Horse Tail Reasons<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n5.375 x 7.125 inches<br \/>\ncollection of J M Menke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cQue no haya novedad.\u201d \u2014 ancient Catalan saying &nbsp; With my new \u201cCrafted Series,\u201d I am paying particular attention to capturing a dominant mood of mystery, surprise, and joy, while keeping the process as spontaneous as possible. These are not calculated artworks, even as I make an effort to hold dark undertones at bay. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,250,119,18,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670"}],"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=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9685,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions\/9685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}