What is a “Totus?”

I mentioned a motif that won’t stay quiet. It’s a mark that keeps reoccurring and I want to hear what it has to say. It’s a series of nested rectangles that seem to refine, shift, amplify, and perhaps try to open portals.

it’s like a copilot with plans of her own. Sometimes to restrict, others to expand. I don’t know where it wants to do next, but I do know I can’t wait to be there for it. Here are some of it’s forms:

These are some studies I did earlier this spring when it wouldn’t be ignored any longer.

Here’s where it popped up on a un stretched canvas I was working on.

I also see it’s precursors in these pieces:

Don’t forget this Old Testament destroyer of this:

Here’s “”Totus redacted”.

Which only shows dependent upon the lighting and your angle of viewing.

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