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.
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
who knows twenty-nine?
Hezkiyahu reigned for 29 years as king of Judah.
as did Amaziah b. Yoash.
&
29 is the 10th prime number
and the sum of 2² + 3² + 4²
Saturn takes 29 years to orbit the sun
no. of days in February in a leap year
no. of letters in the Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian alphabets
Chattanaga Choo Choo departed from track 29
and the song, $29 by Tom Waits
(it is now the 5th week of the omer, hence the pentagram within the icosikaienneagon (which at this size looks more like a circle, but is a 29 sided polygon) As these drawings are so small, I decided not to draw a lines that link all the points to each other, but chose the ones that form pentagrams. and then the beginnings of a smaller inner icosikaienneagon. because it looked nice and I wanted to....)
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