By Regina Sienra on January 2, 2025

Each extraordinary piece looks like it has an invisible square frame around it. Absolutely beautiful!

For years, artist Jon Foreman has spotlighted the organic shapes found in nature. In his breathtaking land art, Foreman takes colorful beach rocks, molded by thousands of years by the seaside, and creates geometric patterns with them. Although he has created countless circular, swirling shapes, Foreman recently decided to experiment with more rigid compositions, laying the rocks within invisible square frames. By doing this, it’s as if the artist marries the natural with the manmade, creating optical illusions in the process.

The shapes of these pieces don’t take away from the mesmerizing effect that has long defined Foreman’s pieces. If anything, it challenges the artist to make the pieces equally eye-catching within a limited, defined space—something he achieves with flying colors. One of his works sees him assorting rocks of five different shades by size, creating a pattern that evokes TV static. In another arrangement, Foreman seems to have created a window to a moonlit night sky with dark blue and grey rocks, dotted by white pebbles that double as stars. […]

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