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Systems of Clarity

Optical system as structure

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Optical system as structure

ART-STA-SCO

Optical system as structure

Index Code:

ART-STA-SCO

Orgin:

United States

Field Notes:

optical impact as method · serial systems · calculated pattern; later process visible through chance · painting as disruptive viewing condition

Defining Moment:

Mid-1980s — the Forty Circles establish concentric repetition as a system of equivalence; late-1980s onward, narrow vertical line paintings on aluminum push optical impact through serial structure and calculated pattern.

Michael Scott

(

b. 1958

)

my-kul skott

Michael Scott builds a world where visual experience is produced through system.
Repeated units are organized by calculation and constraint rather than composition.
Difference registers through optical instability held within serial control.

Repetition under boundary pressure holds as structure.

Structural Focus

Perception as Interface

The work activates through viewing conditions rather than fixed form. Movement, position, distance, or duration alters what is perceived. Vision becomes an interface rather than a passive act.

In Michael Scott’s work, disciplined repetition produces difference through optical instability held within serial control.

Position

Perception as Interface

The work activates through viewing conditions rather than fixed form. Movement, position, distance, or duration alters what is perceived. Vision becomes an interface rather than a passive act.

In Michael Scott’s work, disciplined repetition produces difference through optical instability held within serial control.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Observartory

Michael Scott - Circle Paintings

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

multiplicity as structure

Grey as structure

In Dialogue