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Circles Tending Towards Squares


This is a collection of Circles Tending Towards Squares. 
"These five are all round, but they tend toward the square." - Zhuangzi 

In one dialogue, the Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi (369 BC - 286 BC) talked about how you can't actively attain many mindstates or virtues. You have to passively let them arise. He listed a few, and how trying too hard to attain them corrupts them: "These five are all round, but they tend toward the square." 

These compositions reflect that process -- circular things, gradually gaining corners. 

 
Circles Tending Towards Squares
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Circles Tending Towards Squares

A series of compositions based on the idea of square things becoming round.

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