Geometric Compliance

13 in x 21 in

4/2026

“Geometric Compliance” views power as a system rather than an event. The painting is composed of interlocking geometric units that repeat, rotate, and mirror across the canvas, suggesting structures that are pervasive, stable, and difficult to locate in any single point or figure. The bright chromatic range of primary colors are meant to represent individuals within a society, each disciplined by an invisible but pervasive architectural lattice and shaped by societal constraints. Nested centers and radiating axes never quite resolve into a dominant focal point, which echoes how authority can be everywhere and nowhere at once.  Societal expectations can be distributed, embedded, and normalized within pattern rather than announced by single overt gestures. Prescribed shapes and rigid boundaries articulate a sense of regulation where everything must fit within a prescribed geometry without obvious space for softness, improvisation, or escape. Yet, slight irregularities in line, texture, and color adjacency act as quiet disruptions, implying resistance that is subtle rather than dramatic, and allowing for individualization. There is an underlying tension between order and overload, between being held in place and trying to break pattern. The painting represents how we as individuals fit into systems that derive authority through repetition, enclosure, and normalization rather than overt force.