Rhetorical Square
LightNews LightNews
banner
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
Rhetorical Square
@rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
260 followers 410 following 210 posts
Autistic, queer, quadrilateral. Individual with bevness.
Likes: Art, music, philosophy, parrots, MCM design
Dislikes: Generative AI, MAGA, equivocation, noise, and bland, white condiments.
Posts Replies Media Videos
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
bigbobby55.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
dmkannapan.bsky.social
Day 1: bsky.app/profile/dmka...
dmkannapan.bsky.social D. M. Kannapan @dmkannapan.bsky.social · 8d
Day 1 of 10 days of mammal studies,
in the vein of my birds one from 2023.
A wallaby!
#art #myart #animals
A wallaby bends to sniff at grass. Digital ink-style sketch
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
far-from-equilibrium.com
“world-eater”

(this quick impromptu painting is too tall)

21 Nov 2025

#abstractart #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #abstractexpressionist
tall, narrow portrait-oriented canvas featuring bright colors applied and smudged in energetic strokes. A neon-yellow-green foreground of squat triangular peaks gives way to a smeared middle ground and background of bright magenta and orange with sparse violet shadows. Looming or lurking against this background is an elongated egg-shaped figure painted in smeared and swirled violet and green strokes, its somewhat inscrutable contours and features picking up and blending into the colors of the background.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
rogni-r.bsky.social
Another architectural inspiration (in kind of moonlight).
Started as an abstract mistake, topped with some «wild sketching» and ended with village-inspired shapes. Intuitive, figurative, emotionally driven.

#ExpressiveArt #ModernArt #IntuitiveArt #rogni_r #grimstadkunst
One of my favorite themes “fxck the architects”. This painting will be a member of that series. Colors and shapes are the issues. 25FTA08 (Acrylic on canvas 38x46cm).
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
mattsnee.bsky.social
"Brahms Playing Piano." Pastel and acrylic on paper. #art #artist #artsky #painting #painter #traditionalart
12x18 pastel and acrylic painting shows the composer Johannes Brahms playing a colorful vortex like a piano. He is dressed in a green suit, sits on a stool, and wears a long gray beard.
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
space-for-rent.bsky.social
The SpinMan Too Three
(2025)
#abstract
#abstractPhotography
#Tucson
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
crazymiraclecat.bsky.social
#伊達征士
#伊達
#征士
#RoninWarriors
#SeijiDate
#サムライトルーパー
#SageDate
#RoninWarriors
#art
#artsky
#fanart
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
larsbeelzebub.com
Detail of “In the footsteps of Horus”

#art #artwork #artist #drawing #antiaesthetic #painting #larsbeelzebub #illustration #fineart #contemporaryart #arte #undergroundart #modernart #ink #neoexpressionism #lowbrow #kunst
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
bigbobby55.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reposted by Rhetorical Square
axebane.bsky.social
In the Ruins with the Shadow, 2025

by Daniel F. Walthall
casein on canvas panel, 16" x 20"
#art #painting #abstract
A vibrant casein painting of abstract forms that resemble ruins or towers of stone, with a large slanted form closer to the viewer that has a shadow below it and stretching into the foreground. The sky is alive with golden yellow and coral red, like a hazy sunset, or perhaps a sky f flames. In the sky is a faint blue crescent moon.
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
rhetoricalsquare.bsky.social
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