March 31st 2025 | DAF

9.4.3. | Lucienne O’Mara, 2024

I’m feel like I’m looking at a real life New York Times Tiles game in the New Haven set. Look it up, and you’ll see.

Paintings like this seem so simple and mindless, but there is a deeper level of thought required for a piece like this to work. The artist must have a great understanding of color theory and how colors work together and the conscious and subconscious meanings and influence of different colors and color combinations.  There is definite pattern of how the colors are places, but they communicate very cohesively throughout the piece. The centers of the right side squares are both layered with pale blue and orange. On the left side, the layering of the upper outer square mirrors the colors used to create the lower inner square. None of it is necessarily matchy matchy, but all of these exist as part of the same family. It’s has the essence of a punnett square. Maybe, the idea of a punnett square just came to me, but I’ll have to think about that further.