"9-369" (lotto)

011

primed cardboard, 40x50 cm

Oil

Kyiv, 2012

The old game played with small wooden barrels. Just an example of how numbering of uniform objects and their proper placing can bear mathematic, or arithmetic meaning. These lotto barrels are lined up, forming magic square matrix 9x9, its vertical, horizontal and diagonal sums equal to 369. In celestial spheres mechanics it corresponded to Moon. The background shades resemble of moonlit night.