{"id":1197,"date":"2011-10-13T19:19:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T23:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2011\/10\/13\/1197\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:00:33","slug":"1197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1197","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dixon_selectivememory.jpg' alt='Selective Memory' \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Selective Memory<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nby John Andrew Dixon<br \/>\nmixed media collage on panel, 20 x 16 inches<br \/>\ncreated in August\/September 2011, Danville<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pleased that a collage was chosen to be part of the second in a series of landscape exhibitions at the Community Arts Center. Although I continue to use found material as standard ingredients, the piece marks a departure from the direction of previous work. Inspired by the plein air activity of my friends (Dorothee, Marianna, Donna, and Mike), <em>Selective Memory<\/em> and <em>Day Fulfilled<\/em> (not selected) were created specifically for the opportunity and I pushed my technique toward an effect that fused both representational and abstract qualities. Framing the composition within a cosmic surrounding occurred to me as I thought about how to the best present the result. Dana, Mombo, and Joan came to the reception tonight. I was baffled by which inclusions were awarded cash, but the number of friends who expressed approval with my selection made me happy. The closest thing to this that I\u2019ve done previously may have been <em>1525 Redwood,<\/em> the house portrait created for Flo and Bill. I want to investigate this approach further with more landscapes (perhaps another real location) and with a still life, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selective Memory by John Andrew Dixon mixed media collage on panel, 20 x 16 inches created in August\/September 2011, Danville I\u2019m pleased that a collage was chosen to be part of the second in a series of landscape exhibitions at the Community Arts Center. Although I continue to use found material as standard ingredients, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,18,8,69,36,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}