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Fifteenth Cosmosaic

“Curiosity about the unknown has no boundaries. Symbols, images, place and cultures merge. Time slips away. The stars, the cards, the mystic vigil may hold the answers. By shifting the point of view an...

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The Other Doorway

“Art comes out of art, and you are just another stone in the wall.” — Richard Serra My “Partner In All Things” has outdone herself again. She prepared an outstanding dinner last night in celebration of...

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On Nostalgia in Collage

“ . . . what I am hoping to do is discover if it is possible to separate nostalgia and collage art, or determine whether the two are inextricably entwined.” — Joel Lambeth In a blog entry last month,...

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Assignment: Mars

“I would do ‘John Carter’ again tomorrow. I’m very proud of ‘John Carter.’ Box office doesn’t validate me as a person, or as an actor.” — Taylor Kitsch One of the more exciting developments for any...

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A universal antidote . . .

“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.” — Ray Bradbury I was honored, but also thrilled, to accept my third...

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Bull’s-eye Nosegay

“To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that’s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.” — Ethan Hawke The Target Practice Project shows no signs of...

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Collaboration in Collage, part 3

“We suspect that individual practices function more similarly to collective practice than most people imagine. Whether explicitly acknowledged or not, all forms of production are fundamentally based on...

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White space ain’t a negative thing.

“Life is trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury A familiar approach to collage makes use of elements positioned on a field, activating the “white space” with a typical figure/ground...

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Contemplation Ajar ~ details

“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” — John Wooden One of my favorite things to do with an image of a collage is to explore alternative compositions by...

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Leap of Faith

  Leap of Faith collage on canvas by J A Dixon 11 x 14 inches available for purchase

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Selective Fusion

“Schwitters subjected his bits of flotsam to an organizing principle resembling the vertical scaffolding of Analytic Cubism, thus transforming the diverse components into formal elements.” — Nancy...

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All Things Collage: Year Three

Jamie Wyeth said, “You have to love a medium to work in it.” I have developed such an enthusiasm for collage that I also have been writing about it for three years at this blogsite. Miniatures are at...

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Not So Big

“Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime.” — Joseph Cornell The creations of Joseph Cornell are small, and remained so throughout...

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A Kentucky Collaboration

“I’ve collaborated with many artists over the years but never on a project of this size. The two pieces were to be 24″ x 24″ on structured panels. What made this collaboration successful was the...

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Happy 33!

Dana and I are observing 33 years of marriage, apart from each other. I have made an anniversary collage for her with the scraps of rubbish at hand. Is there not beauty and the potential for redemption...

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Ninety Naughty Gnats

“A special thank you to Helen Reiss, who brought me this crazy manuscript and thought I might like to illustrate it. I had a better idea!” – Allan Bealy   I am pleased to share an announcement from...

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Tender and Wild

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” – Stephen Sondhiem I was in the “Seasonal Zone,” listening to music and making a batch of hand-made greetings and collage miniatures. I...

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details from Pearallelograms

“The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal...

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Are there any rules for collage?

“Ever have one of those collages where every time you add something, it just makes it more difficult to finish?” – T R Flowers What Terry Flowers alludes to in his recent question to collage artists is...

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Collage and the Meaning of Existence

Sorry about that title. I am having a bit of fun with the search engines. On a serious note, today’s entry is about how collage can be put to the service of more than irony, shock, whimsy, irreverence,...

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