![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hall’s acrylic monotypes make each iteration slightly different in texture and color, so the whole is a visual feast. The simple language is as perfect as the initial square. The artist adds lines-making fish, clouds, etc.-that enable readers to see the new creation. Each day, the brilliant colors change, and the square is torn, crumpled or cut. Wednesday’s green shreds become a park, Friday’s blue ribbons turn into a river. On Tuesday, the square is torn into orange shapes and becomes a garden with the addition of a few well-placed lines. It had four matching corners and four equal sides.” On the next page, the square wears a smile, because it is “perfectly happy.” On Monday, though, the square is no longer square someone has cut it up and had at it with a hole puncher, so those shapes arrange themselves into a fountain (with red dots as water). Opposite a shiny red page with white type sits “a perfect square. The volume, like its subject, is a perfect square, welcoming readers into a colorful, geometric romp. ![]()
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