Many years back, Dixon disassembled a battered vintage guitar and rearranged the elements in a composition reminiscent of the early cubist painter style. Once finished, he could see that his artwork still had the essence of a guitar, but was now enhanced with refreshing new geometry. Three-Dimensional (3D) Cubism had jumped off his canvas!

More recently, a newer project required piano disassembly. Inside he found the results of amazing workmanship – magnificent complexities in thousands of intricately hinged, wooden parts; wonderful themes, variations of themes, and rhythms etched in its construction. Certainly, such beauty should be exposed where it could be seen and enjoyed. He assembled many of these wonderful elements to form a 24” x 36” sculpture titled “My Be Flat Piano.” Flat indeed, it was barely 3” thick! On its back, he scribed a few words: “Look now to enjoy the themes and variations on the themes from the internal precision and magnificent rhythms of my ‘Be Flat Piano.’ No longer too heavy to carry, albeit finally out of tunes.”

Today, he peers inside everyday items, scrounged from attics and junk shops, to find hidden beauty that he can expose in new works of art. Printed circuit boards and computer parts pack shelves in my raw materials inventory, where violins and guitars also await implementation, as project ideas unfold.  Dixon hopes you enjoy experiencing familiar items set in new forms, one-of-a-kind combinations that foster traditional cubism to rise off the canvas, out into tactile, three-dimensional reality.