A Cube is a Rectangle

Deleuze argues that repetition is not mere replication but a means of producing difference. I use pattern and repetition in my drawings and sculptures to align with this concept. Each repeated element introduces a variation, a slight difference that accumulates to create a complex whole. I make each drawing by hand upon a matrix of sixteen rectangles subdivided into thirty two triangles. From this matrix I draw an isometric cube containing a pyramid and four columns. I employ a wide range of approaches to produce images that move these archetypal forms between different material states.Dimension: 3.75 x 4.6"Material: Ink and acrylic on Bristol vellum Tom Burtonwood(Austin) Tom Burtonwood (b. United Kingdom) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist, curator and educator. He/they are Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Like the critical theorist Deleuze, Burtonwood maintains a Baroque sensibility, a fascination with complexity, multiplicity, and the infi