Burghard Müller-Dannhausen

The possibilities and variations discovered in 1984 are delved further into in 1985. New pictorial possibilities are generated from the same approach. If one development step may be denoted, it is the modification of the square. In the previous year, deviations from the square were made to alternative basic shapes, to an equilateral triangle or a clear-cut diamond. Such excursions also occurred in 1985. Right-angled triangles, as in one case, paired together to form a breached square as well as stripe-like rectangles. This endless stripe, for example, is a form that only appears in the pictures of this year. However, the modification of the square aims at another direction that turns out to be of much consequence. The expansive shape of the „Almost-Square“ appears – a square-like diamond that remains ambivalent in perception. Such almost imperceptible variations demand a pictorial effect. Parts of the square appear parallel to this that offers new possibilities in pattern formation due to their character. Hence the patterns become more complex and as such more picturesque.