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February 2022



Improvising images made with blocks...

2.1.2022



...combinations for Sol LeWitt...

2.2.2022



...for Paul Klee, the less regular, the more individual...

2.3.2022



...Susan Kare's beautifully blocky images do what they promise...

2.4.2022



...blocking out time on an endless calendar...

2.5.2022



...like trying to place a grid over time...

2.6.2022



...or seeking a gestalt in scattered squares...

2.7.2022



...and having lots of pixels that are neither black or white...

2.8.2022



...remembering how Warhol put flowers on a grid...

2.9.2022



...thinking of making prints from blocks...

2.10.2022



...watching identities dissolve...

2.11.2022



...noticing the grid...

2.12.2022



Minds
seeking order
hearts
the variation
from

2.13.2022



...undulating through the grid, improvising through life...

2.14.2022



...in each square, a journey of impatience laid bare...

2.15.2022



...contemplating ungridable...

2.16.2022



...rearranging familiar syntax...

2.17.2022



...exploring serialization after Kandinsky's "Succession" (1935)...

2.18.2022



...allowing each block to tell a story...

2.19.2022



...bending boundaries while maintaining structure...

2.20.2022



...adolescent grids before turning square...

2.21.2022



...duplication after duplication after duplication...

2.22.2022



...improvising grids this month turned into a much needed systematic drawing practice...

2.23.2022



...needing somehow to return to basic practices, a book of compositions emerged...

2.24.2022



...the dimensions of the units growing, as if the energy in each box can't be contained but must be expressed through lines, curves, and forms, tricking eyes to believe that a simple grid can pulse with life and at any moment a universal symbol might coalesce...

2.25.2022



...sticking together, minimum energy, close packing, efficiently stacked, stable structure, seemingly settled until...

2.26.2022



...appears a blank, a gap in the grid, an empty space, a void, avoided for so long, hidden by marks, wished away, but always present...

2.27.2022



...x & y axes define the space in a grid but a broader perspective locates the grid in space.

2.28.2022