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[Alexandr Korol]

you might have noticed when light hits the lens a certain way, hexagonal flares often appear — hexagonal. You might have seen how water crystallizes when it freezes, turning into snowflakes. You might have noticed that if you pour sand onto a drum and start playing loud music that vibrates through the drum, the vibrations and beats will cause the sand to form patterns on the surface of the drum. And in the end, no matter how you twist it — whether it’s music or paintings — it all still leads to sacred geometry. It all leads back to geometric figures. It’s still a code. And I’ll say this: it might take different forms, but it’s not really music, not notes, not scent notes — ultimately, it’s mathematics. Let’s put it that way — it’s still numbers. You can express it with numbers, or you can express it with a geometric figure, or with algebra, or geometry. There are no other options. Well, physics and chemistry too. So mathematics, physics, chemistry, geometry — these three disciplines make it possible to decipher the code of God, the code of the system. It’s a kind of encoding. Maybe it’s a binary code, a mathematical one. Or maybe it’s just what I need to sculpt soon from sticks — pure geometry. Just geometric shapes placed in the correct relationship, generating one another, and so on. With specific angles, degrees — and how they all generate each other. It’s all infinity. Like a formula. You know how in science fiction films they sometimes show that? Like in the movie Hollow Man, or others — where they try to build a formula, and then it breaks. They’re working and working on the formula on the computer, and then it breaks. And they keep trying to find the right code, to make everything line up — and then finally it clicks, it holds, it doesn’t collapse. Then they test it on animals. And I feel like I’m doing exactly the same thing right now. Seriously. Exactly the same thing. Only I don’t have a computer, I don’t have scientists, I don’t have laboratories — I only have one assistant who models in 3D what I ask for. And I work with sticks and a sheet of paper, a pen — I draw it all and build it from sticks. And I look to see whether it all aligns or doesn’t. And every time it collapses. It aligns, aligns — then it collapses again. And I have to assemble it in such a way that everything connects, locks into place — and that’s it. That’s the process I’m working on right now. So basically, I now have to take tetrahedrons and spin them out so deeply that they give rise to everything: octahedrons, cubes, icosahedrons, dodecahedrons — everything. From a simple triangle that unfolds like a fan, like a flower. And let’s not forget the circles too — especially the one formed around