{"id":54,"date":"2007-02-14T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T23:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/02\/14\/not-the-way-i8217ve-been-wired8212caution-required\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T16:40:45","slug":"not-the-way-i8217ve-been-wired8212caution-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/54","title":{"rendered":"Not the way I\u2019ve been wired\u2014 caution required"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my favorite big sis had her birthday<\/a>, and I won’t comment about whether I think she’s officially “pushin’ 60<\/a>” or not, but I need to confess that one of my hand-made greeting cards was not among her collection this year.\n<\/p>\n

When I made the decision to cut back the activity at John’s HAUS of CARDS, I figured I’d still be making my originals<\/a> for family, but the redeployment of my creative resources has decimated the old HAUS far more than I ever expected, and I miss that time spent meditating on my loved ones. I haven’t found a happy medium yet, but I must, because I’ve always refused to do store-bought cards. I can’t start now—not at my age…\n<\/p>\n

Of course, this is a nontrivial matter. An artist can take many paths, and most of them will cross minefields of egocentricity. I’ll need to be on guard as I make my shift from a gift orientation to this new focus on personal artistic goals. I believe it will all balance out over time, but there are sure to be some pitfalls ahead. What appeals to me about the “Layerist Premise<\/a>” is the emphasis on connectedness and a holistic perspective. Much of the art in my life has been in service to a specific recipient or client. I must take the positive aspects of that motivational framework and merge them with an effort to evolve my own voice, to avoid the undesirable side effects of self-absorption so prevalent in the world of art.\n<\/p>\n

Hey, enough of that— My valentine sweetie awaits!<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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Yesterday my favorite big sis had her birthday, and I won’t comment about whether I think she’s officially “pushin’ 60” or not, but I need to confess that one of my hand-made greeting cards was not among her collection this year. When I made the decision to cut back the activity at John’s HAUS of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,26,18,36,6,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}