Repeated Square

The square, should have four sides, all equal in length, with its corners set at right angles. This painting is of a single line, trying to mirror the path of a square.

The line travels in a closed loop. After a loop, the line never seems to be able to repeat exactly the mark it set before. While, at times trying to be the square, the line veers away, whether it be because of lost of concentration, or lack of discipline.



The  colors used in the painting represent the colors associated with the lines travel. The line repeatedly travels on a white surface. This is meant to portray the lack of color in the robotic loop, which the line travels over and over again. Inside the square features yellow. While traveling in a circular path, the point object will always look towards the inside, as the inside is the direction of acceleration. The green on the outer parts of the square

In a holistic view, the line is you. Year after year, we attempt to follow this ideal path, which can be define as simply (and vaguely yet well defined) as a square. The square, an un-curving, straight, enclosed shape, which all look identical to each other. We have been told to fit this mold, the perfect boring square, and follow the path. The white you travel on, is the worn out ground that has been trampled into soil that is inadequate for any type of growth. The yellow of the inner, represents old tired yellowing grass. Passed are the days of rain, fertility, the dry heat, overwhelming struggles, leaves this plain in an inevitable state of death. The outer is green, grass, untouched yet always so near. We walk along this narrow border of the two, going through the motions, following what others have said to follow, forcefully or by suggestion. It is till you realize what you want, and then float away to your space.

I was the one who drew the picture, but I implore you to also experience this. Take your pen, pencil, mouse, brush, or what ever you have in hand, that can be used creatively and start a line to make a square, then keep making them. Keep drawing these squares right on top of each other. Twenty of them, forty, fifty, keep going.

Have you stopped? These are your years; the years in which I told you how to live. Did you feel the point of drawing the squares, while drawing them? Probably not after the nth square, it felt just like the last one you drew.