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Geometric Splendor · 2022
Square Earth
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The world held in its most honest geometric form — the square that admits what a map actually is.
Square Earth (2022) is a playful rupture of logic — a visual paradox that reframes how we imagine space, shape, and belief. Part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this 90 x 90 inch mixed media piece balances structure with speculation, mapping the impossible with reverence.
The title riffs on flat-earth mythologies, but rather than mock, it meditates. What happens when we take belief and reframe it — not as fact or fiction, but as geometry? The square becomes a planet. The grid becomes a terrain. Color becomes philosophy.
The surface is layered with earth tones — ochre, rust, moss, charcoal — rendered in rectilinear patterns and broken symmetry. Embedded textures suggest erosion, tectonics, weather systems. You are not looking at the Earth, but through it — through a lens shaped by abstraction.
In method and attitude, Square Earth resonates with Frank Stella, particularly his early minimalist works where shape, form, and meaning coalesce without illusion. But where Stella pursued precision, I embrace decay — letting the geometry crack, peel, and breathe.
This painting is both conceptual and deeply material. It asks what happens when our assumptions of shape and world are destabilized — when a planet is a square, and abstraction is a map.
As part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, Square Earth challenges perception through irony and sincerity. It doesn’t resolve the tension — it invites you to live inside it.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 10 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 10 ft or more
- Light
- Any lighting — geometric structure holds in all conditions
- Daylight
- Ochre and rust are the colors Arizona afternoon light amplifies most, so a west wall will run this square hot. Facing north or east, the moss and charcoal keep their place in the structure.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Square Earth earns its 5 here because a living room tolerates sustained looking, and this seven-and-a-half-foot canvas of ochre, rust, moss, and charcoal demands exactly that: the squared-planet geometry keeps revealing new assumptions about what a map is supposed to be.
Hotel lobby 4/5
At 4, the work commands a lobby wall with authority, its near-architectural scale and warm earth tones readable from a distance, though the intellectual destabilization at its center may outpace the attention span of a guest passing through.
Details
- Size
- 7.5 × 7.5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Geometric Splendor
- Palette
- Ochre · Rust · Moss · Charcoal
- Weight
- About 65 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spur
- Texture1
- Form4
- Colour range2
- Palette3
- Contrast2.3
- Abstraction Quotient1
