All Squared Away—This grid of plumbing parts, found in a farming toolshed at a Zen monastery near San Francisco, yammered for my attention because of its obvious regularity. There are a lot of rectangles and squares in this composition!
If you’re dealing with a lot of squares in a composition, it’s a good idea to put them into a square boundary. That’s why this image is presented as a square. Looking at the overall composition, it is a grid of rectangles. What’s the one thing that should happen with a grid of rectangular shapes? It is important that the right angles appear as 90˚ angles; the shapes can’t be distorted. This should not be a problem ...
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