When I looked at my thumbnail sketches I noticed that I did not have very many sketches with very little negative space. I always seemed to keep up certain balance between the negative and positive space so I some with a lack of balance to correct this. I then noticed that I had quite a few sketches that had squares no touching at all so I explored how I could use touch and overlapping the squares to give the sense of order or playfulness. I also notoiced that I had a lot with detachment and very few with cropping so I had to fix that too:
After all that business, I chose my favorite four playful:
The top left deals with touching (no giggling) and it looks like the squares are about to fall over especially since they are barely touching at all. It almost reminds me of those cartoons where that little lady comes out of the store with thos gigantic boxes of crap. The top right has detachment and has nothing sitting upright or balanced. It kinda looks like two little kids falling from those gigantic slides at those water theme parks to me. The bottom left has union and it makes me think of that silly song "Three little monkeys jumping in the bed..." This last one has elements of touching, detachment, and subtraction and it looks like everything is tumbling over.
Next I chose my favorite periodic:
The top left one has detachment and a little balance of the negative and postive spacing. The squares are in set positions, the two at the top mirror each other while the middle three follow each other and are not straying from their line. The top right has subtraction and detachment and the white squares are diagonal from each other with equal smaller squares in the middle of them which also are diagonal from each other. The bottom left has detachment and subtraction with squares in the middle that keep getting bigger and bigger
I want it to continue which is called continuance. The bottom right has interpenetration (I think) and a lot of negative space, but at the same time it works. Can't you see the big square in the middle? YAY closure!!!!
Finally I chose my top two which just happened to look like opposites of each other. Tada!!
In your image with four, my favorite one of all your squares is the bottom right corner. i like it because it is unique to you and i didn't see this solution repeated by others. and the scale shift of between the remnant large squares to small squares is especially interesting as is the absence of the center square.
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