I'm an artist from Wisconsin who focuses on art/graphic design/music/everything and nothing. What more needs to be said?
I couldn't find the words to describe me and this website in a single sentence, so here's multiple broken sentences and text to describe everything and nothing about me in a way that everyone and no one can understand.SQUARE is: an artist/a shape/a weird name to call yourself/someone trying to get to the root/communicates through art and ideas/does not communicate through art and ideas/someone creating new ways of expression through ideas that could excite or disturbed the viewer.This website is: a place for me to put all my artwork fully out on the internet/a showcase of the work I have done, and plan to do in the future/a way to confuse individuals/a reflection in blank spaces/getting to the root/a cryptic message/a blog and more.You can find me online via my socials below
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The website now exists!
It took a while to make this website, just with being unfamiliar with making websites and html/css in general. There were a lot of different website builders and platforms I tried to use before that were either too difficult for me to learn and would have taken me even longer to put the website out, or were not customizable enough. I’m not sure if Carrd will be the permanent solution for this website, probably not although it has been really easy to use and let me experiment more with the overall look of the website without things getting in the way.There’s still more I want to add to this though, like a custom search option for finding tags on artwork would be nice, and more art categories in general. I’m an artist that likes to organize things a lot of the time, well maybe too much of the time. I have a lot of ideas of how far I can take this website and where it will go in the future, but for now I’m just happy that it’s finally out and like a fully functional website! For the future I’m going to be adding more of my art to this website and see if I can implement more features that I want on here, and hopefully work with others, maybe to turn these ideas into a more permanent solution for putting all my art on the internet.Date: 5/5/2025
Future projects + stuff
Ok so here's the thing for today right? I have a lot of ideas and crazy shit I want to do within this year and next year, and it's a lot of stuff. So I figured I’d share some of those ideas here, and who knows maybe people will see this and be interested or not. I need another blog post on my website so it looks good on the first day LOL.Anyways I got some big game plans on my mind, specifically revolving around VR and three dimensional spaces. I want to make worlds that others can explore that are so expansive and maze-like to the point that it would take a person days, maybe even weeks or months to discover everything in the world. Now I’ve had a couple of project ideas in mind that I want to focus on in this kind of abstract thought space, and I want to represent that through virtual worlds because I think that is the best place to do so. At some point in the future I want to make a catalog of worlds that represent past dreams I’ve had and more recent dreams that people can explore and experience like I had before. Maybe this is just a thing with me but I’ve remembered pretty much every bat shit insane dream in my life, and I’ve been very good at remembering details of these dreams. I like entire maps and images in my head with vivid details of things like walls/rooms/spaces/lighting and more. Since I’ve started writing down these dreams so I don’t forget, I feel like it would only make sense to turn these into virtual worlds that people can explore.Alright now hopping off that train of thought I wanna talk about actual virtual experiences in space, because it’s something that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since like 2018. Since the rise of VR games and worlds/experiences like VrChat and Resonite, I’ve been kinda loosely following the development and growth of these platforms overtime. The whole Vr scene to me is really interesting, especially in a kind of art sense but more importantly is how I’ve seen people change and interact in these spaces. It is like a whole world of expression and thought that you don’t get in the outside world often that is just interesting, and I’m in a weird position where I’ve never been in VR or have worn a VR headset. I have a weird sense of an outside perspective of the VR space and I think it would be cool to make worlds and spaces just on pc without going into a VR headset, and then later once I’m done experimenting I try on VR for the first time. Idk I feel like that would be a cool weird way of doing things since I don’t see anybody else taking an approach like that, or maybe I just don’t know people have done that already.Along with that stuff I just kinda rambled about, I want to make a set of worlds? Or spaces people can explore through like separate things? Not sure how I want to describe it yet but since 2018 I’ve been looking into liminal spaces and artwork that uses space in general. With the Backrooms gaining popularity online and being familiar with liminal spaces I’ve just had the itch to do something similar in virtual worlds. Hell the state I live in is like a giant liminal space all the time wherever I go. Anyways I want to do something like this on a super large scale in VR. I want people to have the ability to fly around and walk around in these megastructures and spaces to the fullest extent. I think it would be cool seeing a community form just from the ideas and thoughts that come from liminal spaces in this kind of virtual space.This is the best I can describe these ideas right now, but I will probably figure out more as I start working on these projects. I’m not sure what I’ll use to do this but I have been looking into Resonite and it looks promising. Maybe I could do a mix on both platforms with Resonite and VrChat somehow? Idk maybe these are not called platforms at all in the sense that I’m thinking of and somebody will cringe reading this. Well ok actually I just looked it up and it said that Resonite was a digital universe with infinite possibilities. Already sounds way better than VrChat to be honest lol. Alright I think I’m done rambling for now, I could talk more about the shop page/painting projects and more but I can write that stuff in another blog at another time.Date: 5/5/2025
Random thoughts: interpretations
Can art be interpreted in a wrong way?Most people say that art can be interpreted in many different ways depending on the viewer's opinion on a work, and what the work represents to the viewer. This can also depend on if the work has any information given to it via the artist like descriptions or the artist's own description of what the artwork represents. These things and many more factors play into how an artwork can be interpreted, but as an artist I see factors play into these interpretations that not many people are talking about right now. So here's my brain spew/stream of consciousness on the topic.As an artist I believe without a doubt that there are wrong ways to interpret art, and there are a couple of things to think about when determining if these interpretations are wrong.For starters let's focus on what wrong even means in this context. What does it mean to have a wrong interpretation of an artwork? Well wrong can mean many different things depending on the person and setting, even context of the situation depending on what the artwork tries to represent. Now without making things too complex wrong as we know it to be in the basic sense is something that is not correct or true to different things. What are these things? Well they can be a set of rules or connotations a person might have in the world for example, but the most important one that I see out of this scenario is morals. Morals are these fun little things that are built upon a person's beliefs/standards for what is right and what is wrong. And there's a lot more than just that in the field of psychology/physiology etc. Anyways the main point of these morals is that they are abstracted via each individual person and will be different depending on who you talk to. Well that doesn't really help us in determining if an interpretation can be wrong or not, but it does help us in determining the most likely morals a person would have in response to creating an interpretation. This is going to be based on people in the United States and their morals by the way because that's where I am writing this from, and where I’ve had the most experience besides other cultures that would affect morals way more in a complex field of study.Additionally if I’m going to determine if an interpretation is wrong as an artist, or just as a normal person I have to look at that person's morals or beliefs, and ask myself if they align with my own, or others around me. Now obviously I’m not going to force myself to align my own morals and values with others around me unless I had to because my morals or values were justifiably wrong via things like the law etc. However these different beliefs that another person might have could possibly change the way in which I determine if an interpretation is wrong, and it's important to remember that you can have multiple interpretations. It doesn't have to just be one interpretation and that can influence you in different ways.So for example a photograph called Piss Christ by an artist named Andres Serrano, represents how Christ himself lived inside a body just like everybody else, and that the piss or body fluids in this photograph are just as normal to nature as everything else. Additionally the kind of metaphor here that other sites online and from what other people have said before is that these nasty things in nature are just as normal as everything else. So like if you pee it's not going to be satanic or whatever like that. Or I guess in a better sense the waste we expel isn't necessarily bad but just a part of the process as Christ himself wanted it to be, or created it to be I guess? Now obviously I have some bias when it comes to this artwork and artist because I’m not religious myself, and don’t really have the same morals and thoughts that the artist had when making and talking about the artwork. However I do have a way to interpret it!So what do I see out of Piss Christ? Well, I see it as a symbol of rejecting religion entirely, maybe even a symbol of anarchy too. And I’m not the only one who sees it this way, as many others online and in person that I’ve talked to have also said similar things in the context of rejecting religion as being the truth or real to nature. I can even argue that more people see the artwork and have these interpretations way more than how Andres Serrano would like people to see and understand the artwork. But does that make my interpretation wrong? Does it make it right or better? Well if you're a christian you would probably hate me and my interpretation of his work, and say mine is wrong because of your beliefs/morals including the artist's own context for the artwork. But I could also say that my interpretation is right because of my own beliefs/morals and my own thoughts on the work besides the artist's context alone.This brings me to my next big point which is the situation revolving around artist’s ways of bringing in descriptions and context to their works. Should I base my own interpretations around my own morals if those interpretations are going to ignore or disagree with what an artist has given to the work to give it its own context? More specifically, should I disagree with what an artist's description says about their artwork? Well people can disagree on different things there’s not really anything stopping you from doing that, but how does that play into interpretations and if they are wrong or not? Well for an example imagine a person walking into a museum and seeing an apple placed on a white greek pedestal, and saying that they think the artwork is bad because it is a banana. Now this makes no sense because it's an apple on the pedestal and not a banana. After this remark the person leaves the museum and doesn't come back. How do we know if the person was lying or not? Did they just say that because they were mad or did they generally believe that it was a banana and not an apple? There's different factors that play into our own morals to determine the right or wrong in interpretations like these. As an artist I would say this person's interpretation is wrong because the only basis of disliking the work is the apple being a banana itself. But obviously it's not a banana and it's an apple so this interpretation given by the person who walked into the museum is wrong. But others could argue just as much that the interpretation was right, giving the thought that maybe the person just really saw a banana and not an apple in his mind, and disliked bananas so he didn't like the work.What's wrong with making wrong interpretations? I think that is the bigger question that nobody is asking. I could go on and on into an endless fractal of possibilities to answer this question and justify different things and examples for which interpretation is right or wrong. But that’s not up to me now, you have to make that decision yourself. You and others have to decide collectively or not collectively if the different interpretations are wrong or right, and what thoughts outweigh others, or maybe not outweigh anything at all. Your own intelligence and morals determine that stance, and that is what will make the integration wrong or right.Ok so like that’s a lot of information and possibly and I’m too lazy to think about all of that right now. So for a brief summary yes interpretations can be wrong, and yes there's situations where people can be wrong about making wrong interpretations. Does this matter that much, probably not but at least you can leave this text today knowing that you were right about blank canvases in museums being the most boring thing to come out of the art world today. Alright that's all I have if I type anymore my keyboard is going to explode.Date: 5/15/2025
Fall 2025 insanity
This year has been a crazy mix of the highest highs and the lowest lows and I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way like this been that way the entire year, at least that's what it's felt like to me. Besides that I’ve been doing a lot of things behind the scenes in terms of organizing stuff and getting projects done/almost done where I can finally show them to everybody which is fun. Speaking of projects like holy crap I feel like this year has just gone super fast and in that time I have worked on so much stuff to the point that I almost completely got burned out. Now luckily that didn't happen and I’m still doing stuff but we’re already in the fall season and so much has happened like it's crazy right now! Which also brings me to now and I guess my lack of posting finished projects and updates online. If you follow my Bluesky account you’ve probably seen that I’m pretty active on there and for good reason, because it seems like people ONLY see my posts on there which as of right now is kinda ass. Like no offence to people seeing my posts and following me over there like you guys are awesome! But in terms of reach and getting more eyes on my work it feels very dead everywhere else right now, especially on platforms like Twitter and Instagram. I’m not going to go into the whole explanation why those platforms have sucked for me because that would make this blog post way too long, but since like a month ago now I’ve just kinda stopped posting art on twitter and removed almost everything from instagram. Like all the instagram posts and reels are all gone except for like one recent post, and I’ve just been using twitter to post random shit mostly. So what's my plan? You may be asking random internet person… Uh well I’m going to be posting art and updates on Twitter and Instagram again! Only this time I’m going to be posting a little bit differently from before, in a way where I don’t really need to care about hashtags or formatting or any of that bullshit. I’m not really focused on growing a following on those platforms anymore because it’s been the biggest waste of my time in 2025 and right now I have better things to focus on. Maybe in the future more people will see my posts on twitter and instagram and then I can do more things with that but for now it’s back to more updates and art posts I guess.Anyways I do actually have some exciting announcements though, including an album this month! I’ve been cooking in the kitchen and my bombshells are almost ready to land onto bandcamp and maybe other cool upcoming platforms too 👀. So that's awesome and I’m also going to be showing off some very important art projects throughout this month and next month, and these aren't like single drawings or mini projects no no this like really large scale projects that will continue into next and and beyond. Now I don’t wanna spoil too much but let's just say that I have a lot to show, in terms of that stuff being live, and maybe also on a 30x30 inch canvas that is way too big to be storing in my room like god damn this thing is way too big. But really there is a lot coming up this month and next month, including some plans I’ve been working on.Which brings me to the next thing that is my Super Square Plans! Now at the moment this is just a little document showing some plans and ideas for projects that I’m still working on for this year and next year, but you get to like see it now so yay! Oh and I’m also working on getting some prints made of my art and doing some merch related things if people want to support my work. I might also open up a patreon to give exclusive updates and behind the scenes stuff for projects and upcoming announcements for cool things. So that's pretty awesome, I was going to open up a discord server during all of this too but I’m going to wait on doing that because there's some stuff I have to work on for the server before letting people join. And yeah thats about it, look out for updates and more crazy stuff on my socials because I will be posting more over there and stay tuned for my album coming out around the end of October!!!Date: 10/8/2025
The square items page/shop page/merch store/print shop/everything you ever wanted/everything you never wanted is still a work in progress and will exist soon.
