Since 1998, I have been working on a series of images whose major organizing scaffold is the square. I number the members of the series only if I think that the results have been reasonably successful. The painting, Wotan (1950), by Franz Kline, was a major stimulus in my getting started in making images based on the square. Wotan consists of a large (ca 4'x4') open black square (with one side jutting out beyond the square's interior) on a white ground (ca 4.6'x6.6'). Most of my works to date have not referred directly to Wotan. However, Square #7 (subtitled Variation on Kline's Wotan) represents Wotan reinterpreted with the square squared up and the white ground replaced by agitated gold leaf containing some structured elements.