As a part of the Elevate series at 21c Chicago, Tom Burtonwood presents Recurring, three elements of his ongoing project “A Cube is a Rectangle.” Gallery 3 features a large gridded wall installation of over 200 of Burtonwood’s signature “Würfel” drawings. Adjacent to the gallery two large “Würfels” crafted from mixed media materials including hydrocal, paint, soil, and natural fibers hang side by side. Accompanying these two-dimensional works is a new single-channel stop-frame animation of his unfolding cube motif. Burtonwood’s series “A Cube is a Rectangle” reflects on the idea that true repetition is not mechanical or identical, but that it can be ”productive”—it creates something new each time. This contrasts with what Gilles Deleuze calls "generality," where repetition is based on sameness, predictability, and equivalence (like in a clock ticking or mass production). In contrast, “real” repetition occurs on a deeper, ontological level: it is singular, evental, and tied to difference.