Imagine a bunch of identical canvas squares painted red, each of which has a different meaning, history and name.
Copy your photo onto the canvas, going square by square.
And, in a clever twist, Hogan had the muralists use an unconventional canvas: 185 square meters, or 2,000 square feet, of the same fabric that Hogan uses to make the Olympia sneakers.
At first they seem to hail from a time when Frank Stella's shaped paintings, with their repeating bands of metallic color, had painters doing everything possible to avoid conventional paint on canvas and square corners.
From 1942 to 1945, Dutch museums hid more than seven hundred works of art inside the mountain, including Vermeer's "The Little Street" and Rembrandt's "The Night Watch," a huge canvas (fifteen square metres) that spent the rest of the war rolled up as a stalagmite.
The canvas was square, 156 centimeter to a side; a ribbon of tricolored thread ending in tassels was attached to the flagpole.
From spray-painted T-shirts and canvas banners, square black stickers and solemn portraits, Trayvon Martin's face stared out at a Leimert Park rally in Los Angeles last weekend, hours after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in Florida.
Here he is represented by a series of all-white, easel-size pictures made of materials like pleated canvas, or squares of cut canvas, or hundreds of tiny Styrofoam balls.
A red canvas has a square window cut from the middle and a white square -- the missing piece -- attached to its outer edge.
A single square canvas, dark and primitive, hung above the bed she was hunkered down in.
