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Michael Scott - Circle Paintings
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Containment through repetition

Containment through repetition

Michael Scott - Circle Paintings

Circular forms repeat within a fixed field.
Scale is held steady.
Variation appears without preference.

What’s being held here?
Although each circle differs slightly, none is allowed to resolve as better, stronger, or more expressive than the others. The structure refuses hierarchy. Difference exists, but it is contained — not eliminated, not celebrated. The circle functions as a neutral carrier. It does not symbolize, describe, or gesture outward. Instead, it stabilizes attention. Meaning arises through sustained observation, not recognition. This is a practice of restraint. The work demonstrates how repetition can quiet decision-making, allowing perception itself to become the primary event.

Although each circle differs slightly, none is allowed to resolve as better, stronger, or more expressive than the others.

The structure refuses hierarchy. Difference exists, but it is contained — not eliminated, not celebrated.

The circle functions as a neutral carrier. It does not symbolize, describe, or gesture outward. Instead, it stabilizes attention.

Meaning arises through sustained observation, not recognition.

This is a practice of restraint.

The work demonstrates how repetition can quiet decision-making, allowing perception itself to become the primary event.

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