{"id":1339,"date":"2013-03-04T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:24:40","slug":"marx-four-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1339","title":{"rendered":"Mar\/X Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concentrating on miniatures seems right to me at this time, but a shift to larger works will be appropriate when I eventually get a solo show somewhere. I\u2019ll enter the best of my current crop of small pieces in the \u201cNOT-2-BIG\u201d exhibition and submit a \u201cminiature miniature\u201d in Sherryl\u2019s event in Yellow Springs. The satisfaction of producing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/938\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Diamonds in the Rough<\/em><\/a> is a restless call to scale up, and my larger works will probably continue to be more calculated than in the past. I\u2019ll use that approach with my donation to the \u201cArt-full Raffle\u201d this year\u2014 something planned and executed specifically for that occasion. This gets to the heart of refining my process, using miniatures as a creative gateway to bigger, more complex ideas that deserve the investment of more time, not to mention a substantial sticker price. The challenge is to arrive at a methodology that fuses a mastery of style and technique with an outlook, a perspective, a \u201cvoice,\u201d that delivers more than a sense of spontaneity and aesthetic unity, but a way of conveying something worth saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concentrating on miniatures seems right to me at this time, but a shift to larger works will be appropriate when I eventually get a solo show somewhere. I\u2019ll enter the best of my current crop of small pieces in the \u201cNOT-2-BIG\u201d exhibition and submit a \u201cminiature miniature\u201d in Sherryl\u2019s event in Yellow Springs. The satisfaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"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=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}