The Fourth 'Book of Schemes'. Album #1, the Third Folder 1978

Valerii Lamakh made this coloured pencil drawing as part of his 'Book of Schemes,' and you know, "scheme" is such an interesting word for an artist to use. I like to imagine Lamakh hunched over his desk, absorbed in the act of drawing. Each shape, each colour choice, feels deliberate, part of this puzzle he's constructing for himself. He's playing with geometry, laying out how colours interact and how they might be organized. There is an idea of breaking down colour into its constituent parts, like the triangle of blues, and the wheel of all the colours. It's a very methodical approach, yet there's something deeply human and intuitive about it too. I love how the piece invites us to think about art as a system, a way of mapping the world through colour and form. It reminds me of artists like Josef Albers, who also explored colour relationships in a systematic way. Artists are always trying to build the world through a personal lens, or to crack the code of how the world is built.