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Rhetorical Square
@rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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Autistic, queer, quadrilateral. Individual with bevness.
Likes: Art, music, philosophy, parrots, MCM design
Dislikes: Generative AI, MAGA, equivocation, noise, and bland, white condiments.
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Aphantasia
#art #digitalart #abstractart #humanart #aphantasia
Not having a clear mental picture of things allows space for other types of vision. Kind of like looking at the Christmas tree lights without glasses and seeing how "less is more" on the visceral plane. People with 20/20 vision need not apply; your certainty murders the question. A group of characters walking through light fog. Only some of them know how to let the fog in.
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Fordite Falls
#art #fordite #humanart #abstractart #digitalart
Abstract automatic drawing finished in Procreate. Fordite is an interesting business case. What it is is layer upon layer of paint sprayover from the floors of factories where new cars are painted. The paint splatters and builds up year after year creating these beautiful patterns. How random is that? Good question! Anyway, what happens next is that the paint eventually has to be scraped up, by which time it might be an inch or two thick. It is broken up into small pieces and polished. Each piece is unique. Some might use the word "rare." You might even find a piece of fordite more attractive than gemstones worth millions. Why not wear it as a ring or necklace? Yes, it's "man made" but without intention. Or rather with intention towards something else, something bigger and more "important" than the negative space of the factory floor. This could be a story of capitalism and gullibility, but it's more. Let them laugh their way to the bank, I'll be here exploring the swirls and patterns, honoring the odd little creatures embedded here and there and reading the secrets to life those assholes never noticed.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Glittering prizes
#art #abstractart #humanart #digitalart #automaticdrawing #RUSH
Abstract with blobs, loops, scribbles, and points. Indeterminable number of creatures, bright colors on dark navy background. Endless compromises made.
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Gauntlet
#art #abstract #humanart #abstractart #digitalart #automaticdrawing
An abstract of tangles and blobs. There are skulls in here and a bird. Many other types of creatures. There is no negative space. Let me die on this hill. Colors are mostly bright and unruly. They run cool and warm but they don't run the gamut.
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Further
#art #abstract #orange #ghosts #humanart
Abstract shapes in warm colors, an orange central figure. A ghost or two carry a sign or maybe the real thing, flattened. But that's just one way to look at it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This Corrosion
by Rhetorical Square
#art #graphicmedicine #UK-HDI #humandevelopmentinstitute #comic #autism
Display of cover and a couple of panels from This Corrosion, a graphic medicine piece I did as part of a project with Graphic Medicine Resource Lab, a project of the University of Kentucky's Human Development Institute. Cover shows a very basic hospital illustration. Panel 1 shows a confused receptionist and a person named Square whose presenting problem is "corroded battery feeling." Panel 2 shows Square practicing a speech in a mirror. They have written a book called Bypassing Bias. The speech notes read, "At the time, I didn't know much about autism. I didn't realize that I was autistic." This comic is an attempt to illustrate a few things about autistic communication for medical professionals.
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Growth mindset
#art #abstract #memory #humanart
Self-construction zone. Gross mindset. Building something. Potential for personhood, memories written, amended, erased, reconstructed. Efforts to dodge influences, particular. The stop and start, the redo. All wrecked up in the planning stages.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Festival
#art #abstract #skull #automaticdrawing #party
Stacked and layered hints of buildings, creatures, and skulls, if not celebrating, then at least making the best of it. Drawn without a thought or plan, offered with only mild regrets.
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Serenade
#art #abstractart #humanartist #music #automaticdrawing #map
Twisty abstract map with various creatures. The song offers meaning and distraction in equal measure. A planet lodged in your inner ear. Pale yellow, green, and grey on black background.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Notes from yesterday's meeting, the part with the slanderous praise
#art #abstract #humanartist #sketchbook #sketch #meetingnotes
I take notes in meetings. Otherwise I forget. Here's an assortment of oddballs, all eyes on the opposite of what you really said. Most everything is orange or yellow. The coffee is served in shotglasses and servers are taking away the nearly untouched cheese and fruit long before the meeting is over. Why are you still sitting here? There are pages more of notes to be taken.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Shift
#art #humanartist #abstract #dystopia
An abstact with sections. Some are like cards telling fortunes or depicting history, all manipulated from the penthouse where it looks like someone has had too many of something and isn't done yet.
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Damage
#art #portrait #landscape #humanartist #digitalart #abstract #abstractart
Abstract landscape in muddy colors with purple sky. Is it a head-shaped boulder blocking the view or a a semi-transparent face photobombing? I don't have to answer that question. You don't have to ask it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Grapple
#art #abstract #map #humanartist
Abstrat dominated by roundish shapes, cream, yellow, brown, and light green on a federal blueish background. Are there faces? I don't know what you're talking about.
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Cast
#art #abstract #humanartist #creatures
Light blue and yellow/green abstract with navy blue. Something round is the focus, faces inside it, could be a burial ground or a fire circle or a table or volcano. The outer rim of it is alive. Someone is performing a ritual. Beyond this are landscape and maplike features where more creatures lurk. Your guess as good as mine.
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Leap
#art #abstract #humanartist #creatures #landscape
An abstract containing multitudes of poorly defined creatures and vegetation. A history book staring Red Riding Hood, Rock-em Sock-em Robots, your Thanksgiving turkey. A world in chains dreaming of less scary monsters. Dark splotches, stringy lines, ghosts owning all of us.
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Installation
#art #abstract #faces
It could be an arcade or a gallery. Faces Pop Pop hanging animals skulls of various types. Carousel, post-it notes, slacker, banana and aliens. Somebody famous. A robot chicken bursts in with crayon snake and tiki bar. Over there, it's Mardi Gras. The gallery owner is showing Kool Aid to the exit. Your mileage may vary.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Eidetic
#art #faces #pareidolia #abstract #humanartist #abstractart #landscape
Colored, duplicated and recolored, snipped, divided and layered from an automatic drawing. Landscape pareidolia through several centuries.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Pall Mall
#art #abstract #map #creatures #automaticdrawing #everythingthateverhappenedhere
A map or a composition of overlapping creatures in blue, green, white, and black. Nothing is depicted, though you might get a sense of birds, river, rockface, dancing cigarettes. Trumpeting Coaster Gods, Kool-Aid Serengeti, or Pangolin Fever. Gar, gar, ice melting, melting, faces melting. Vultures, webs, and continental drift. I forget. Seasons of gratitude for this, whatever, garnished hope. Another fortnite gone. A word you never got to use. Another. Themes are as usual.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Fathom
#art #abstract #humanart #automaticdrawing #creatures
Green, blue, gold, black, light yellow. An abstract landscape/map with cratures. Just off the wire: Evidence fungi are superior can no longer be suppressed. In mid-evolution, my shopping bag shatters. Automatic drawing.
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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November
#art #abstract #abstractart #humanartist #map #landscape
Messy abstract landscape/map in shades of teal and mauve (shades of the 80s!) Has a post-apocalypse feel wiht some areas burned out and some still on fire. The faces are everywhere watching.
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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No, Cassie
#art #vision #creatures #abstract #abstractart #Cassandra #digitalart #humanartist #ghosts
Over and over again. Some of them still say you're overreacting. Nearly all of the color has been drained, and your will to be present. Accept that it's a gift, the hollow pie. Remember when the crust was all you thought you wanted. Puke green and lightest yellow with some grey too on a navy blue background. What can I say about the ghosts and living characters? This is all I ever have to say. They overlap. We are not meant to see or to say.
November 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Accusations: Collector
#art #abstract #abstractart #monsters #creatures #landscape #humanartist
An abstract scribbling of seen and unseen monsters with stairs, creatures, shoeboxes, skeletons, artifacts, shadows, loss, and doors. Colors are purple, black dark blue, green, and orange/gold.
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Otherside
#art #digitalart #abstract #abstractart #creatures #map #landscape #humanartist
Purple, black, and white with spots of green, an abstract landscape/map with ghosts of all kinds and dilapidated buildings.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The shreds
#art #abstractart #Procreate #humanartist #landscape #map #automaticdrawing
Finally it is known that all the world is composed of crumpled, stained, and shredded newsprint. You are free to deny this, but you will be assigned as papier mache, positioned near the launchers and left to mildew. A few tourists consider. The madman points to the next toy boat to be ripped from the picture. Purple/blue/beige/grey abstract.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Assist
#art #abstract #digitalart #abstractart #creatures #pink #humanartist
Spaghetti/lace abstract in pink, drawn mindlessly and colored with intention in Procreate. Also includes purple, black, cream. Some familar characters here that might bring to mind birds, frogs, snakes, fish, protozoa, variety of insects, ghosts, scale, and flipper. Cash register. Turtle, mask, key, accomplice, and window optional.
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM