Square God is a practicing artist and mathematician with an emphasis on geometry, logic, and abstraction.
Math directly informs her interpretation of the concept of abstraction, providing a formal definition and framework. Working with abstraction in a formal setting developed Square’s intuition for abstraction, processes, and construction.
Square’s collages begin as abstract gouache and acrylic paintings. Straight lines and squiggles each demand a particular mindfulness. A line requires a steady hand and breath, and sharp proprioception, whereas the squiggles require a playful improvisation with strong presence and intention.
The paintings are then cut into square pieces and carefully rearranged, constructing a new image. The square serves as a vessel for abstraction. Fragments of images combine to form memory and meaning in the same way pixels create an image. The square isolates and contains a local fragment of the composition and recontextualizes it. Rearranging these reveals persistent features from a global perspective.
She then crops a photograph of the collage, scales it up, and transforms it into a print mounted behind plexiglass. She also uses sections of the collages as reference for large oil paintings, mimicking the gestures of the original squiggle in a much bigger scale, from leading with the wrist to the shoulder. The distortion of scale and media translation changes the impact of the work. What begins as a close, intimate 2 inch piece of a 8” x 10” collage turns into an expansive environment of shape and color.
Square’s latest collection takes four cropped, close-up photos of the collages and then passes them through print.world's generative iteration process, introducing a new layer of abstraction and producing 100 distinct outputs. Each NFT is unique and varies in palette and form. All 100 are bound to a single token.