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Why do you compose for "Square Format" on occassion?
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June 20, 2009 at 12:09:06 AM #11
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Joined: 1/24/2009
Location: USA, California
Hi,
thank you for invitation!
I do compose on squares as I want to give a balanced, meditative feel. I think square, being so regular, fits very much this requirement.  I just wan to create the static feel in the composition, to calm it even more down. For my purpose squares work better than rectangles.
July 13, 2009 at 10:27:32 PM #12
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Joined: 3/3/2007
Location: Dallas, TX

For me, I think it might have been the resemblance to quilt blocks.  After I got my BFA, I didn't want to paint for 3 years and instead I worked on crazy quilt blocks.  When I started drawing again it was manadala, while round were suited to a square peice of paper.
Now I am work on a series 99 cats and a bird that I want to hang all the peices on a wall to look like a giant quilt.
Also some of my recent fantasy themed works are square because I am thinking of having buttons made from them.  I figured it would make a better composition if I worked from squares to begin with.
August 28, 2009 at 12:11:51 AM #13
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Joined: 5/17/2007
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted in reply to StyllLyfe's post
Cropping out the bottom one-third of a vertical 35mm photographic frame is a way of avoiding converging verticals. One starts further away, and the effect is as though one had a rising front. All my four submissions were made that way.
November 02, 2009 at 2:20:02 PM #14
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Joined: 8/28/2009
Location: Salt Lake City
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