Perfect Cube: After Lewitt is very likely the first in a series of works in which I am using my own geometrical system of reworking drawings, in this case, one of  Lewitt’s cubes that is constructed of equal units on all sides. There are so many different ways I could render this very cube, and Lewitt drew countless many more. (Of course, I would never bother to hunt all these down in order to exploit them toward my own ends. More likely, I may invent some based on the formal potentialities of using a compass and a ruler to create them in the first place.)

I love Lewitt’s cubes, however, I have always felt they only reveal a fraction of a world of phenomena around them. This work is a homage in the form of further developing a potentiality in Lewitt’s oeuvre. I am more and more interested in using geometry as a point of departure to explore deeply into the interconnected nature of human intuition. I am looking to let these works get looser over time, without losing the kinds of tension that following (and breaking) rules affords an artwork.

I am curiously surprised to notice that I have set my version of the cube in a plume of smoke at the mouth of a smokestack.