who knows 1 to 50 is a daily drawing project to count the days of the omer. The omer is the period of time from the freedom festival of pesach to the festival of receiving knowledge on Shavuot. it is seven weeks, 7 x 7 days, with Shavuot as the 50th day. each day I will draw barley grains that correspond to the number of the day, exploring the poetry of the numbers.
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
who knows nine?
nine are the months before a baby is born...
&
the nine days of mourning leading up to the 9th Av that commemorates destruction
nine muses
nine circles of Dante's hell
cloud nine (highest level of cloud)
nine lives of a cat
and K9 - Dr Who's robot dog
in base 10, the digits of all multiples of 9 eventually sum to 9 - (I still remember learning that in school and thinking it was magic)
artistic creativity, heaven & hell, birth & destruction, cats &
dogs. all in a magic prime number
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