I am comfortable with art containing visual ingredients that represent a spectrum from the greatest evil to the highest good, but it always bugs me to see a collage artist traffic in the shock that comes with merely taking a “cheap shot” or “low blow” at religious imagery.
My third rule of collage: Intuition is worthy of your trust.
Taken to fruition, a catharsis of the unconscious is always a possibility with this medium. And so, my peculiar series continues in a thought-provoking manner.
Unprotected Speech
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
6.75 x 8.875 inches
available to collectors
Down Side Up
collage catharsis on book cover by J A Dixon
12.5 x 8.75 inches
available for purchase
Face the Music
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
6 x 7.5 inches
private collection
“Collage is a fantastic tool to modulate the strain of life and associated feelings.”
— Laurie Kanyer
This one was started some time ago, in response to the Paradise conflagration, but I had no determination to finish it until after a deadly storm front came through our region last Saturday.
If you can, please reach out to help.
Ticket to Trauma
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
8.25 x 10.625 inches
available for purchase
The national symbol of the eagle is so iconic I often forget that Benjamin Franklin was opposed to its adoption and favored the turkey. (Some things need no further elaboration.)
If You Turkeys Can Keep It
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
8 x 10 inches
available for purchase
Prognosticated Harm
collage collaboration by J A Dixon
5.25 x 6.75 inches
for the Arizona Collage Collective salute to World Collage Day
available for purchase
Married Life Done Changed Him
collage catharsis by J A Dixon
8.5 x 11.5 inches
from my Series of Rock
available for purchase
To Us Any Day
collage miniature by J A Dixon
6.5 x 8.75 inches
from my Series of Rock
available for purchase
Makeshift Dissidents
collage on book cover by J A Dixon
6.0625 x 9.5625 inches
available for purchase