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Two Paintings, Six Images, 2026

Goals, Painting Squares Forever, 30,459 x 2027

Christine Ödlund （Swedish, b. 1963）

from the series "Polyphonic Soundscape" 1. I, 2021 / watercolour, plant pigments and pencil on paper / 43 × 35.5 cm 2. IV, 2021 / watercolour, plant pigments and pencil on paper / 43 × 35.5 cm 3.VI, 2021 / watercolour, plant pigments, ink and pencil on paper / 73.5 × 54.5 cm via more

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I started these two paintings on August 20, 2025. According to my calculations, I am more than 9945/13689 done — more than two thirds. I will be joining the 5-digit club soon, circumstances permitting. I plan to finish them by mid-June at this pace, 40-50 squares per day on average. In other words, forever. Time does not exist.

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Joe Brainard, Untitled (Garden), 1967 fabric collage

Artist David Siqueiros at Lecumberri prison, Mexico City, Mexico (1960)

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Paul Klee, Drawing for color course

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Robert Rauschenberg Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953. Click to view at SFMOMA.

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Butterflies

166 MB, 1440x3088 px, 190 seconds

This video is included in a YouTube Playlist (Painting Butterflies) featuring some of the original 20+ videos recorded of mixing colors and painting marks.

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Milkweed Entanglement, #2 [2025]

Acrylic and Oil on canvas, 110 x 110 cm

I am required to write a statement about this piece before the Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize submission deadline, July 18 (see link below).

This is the best I can do, for now:

"The endangered monarch, the milkweed sanctuary in my garden, the risk to animal and human life associated with modern times, and how our combined fate is commingled, are the inspirations behind this painting.

This painting figuratively splits light into complementary components, in effect, canceling out its own image — a half-disappearing monarch, half-disappearing art, and half-disappearing observers are projected.

For the visually impaired: A 49 x 49 grid of 2 cm squares was painted using acrylics on canvas. The array is comprised of reversed colors that were rendered from a pixelated display of a monarch feeding upon pink milkweed flower in the sunlight. Subsequently, an X of complimentary color was painted over each of the squares using oil paint, generating a painting that metaphorically disappears.

The Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize Paul Tikkanen was a contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and photographer born in Ashtabula i

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Josef Albers, Gray Instrumentation II, 1975

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Portrait in 81 Entangled Photons [2025]

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 cm

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Gertrud Arndt was one of the few Bauhaus women who designed with exceptional clarity and precision. She designed her carpet from 1924 as part of the experimental weaving studio in Dessau - an early masterpiece of modern textile art.