{"id":3232,"date":"2023-12-20T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2024-01-27T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:21:56","slug":"3232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/3232","title":{"rendered":"The benefit of cropping exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAccepting the familiar is the enemy of seeing&#8230; Seeing takes work and patience and concentration and focus otherwise we are always walking around in a fog only seeing what we think we know but not actually seeing anything at all.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Cecil Touchon<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cropping exercises always offer some insights about internal composition and color relationships. The more I internalize spatial decisions and color judgments, the less reason there is to think about them when I seek spontaneity in pasting ingredients. Please take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/17600\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the entire collection that I call <em><strong>LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/LKY_CropComp_800.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/LKY_CropComp_800.jpg\" title=\"Nine Details, LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY ~ collage en plein air by J A Dixon\" width=\"400\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16909\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 489px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Nine Details, LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage <em>en plein air<\/em> by J A Dixon<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/17722\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>gicl\u00e9e prints of originals are available<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccepting the familiar is the enemy of seeing&#8230; Seeing takes work and patience and concentration and focus otherwise we are always walking around in a fog only seeing what we think we know but not actually seeing anything at all.\u201d \u2014 Cecil Touchon &nbsp; Cropping exercises always offer some insights about internal composition and color [&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\/3232"}],"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=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}