The Fourth 'Book of Schemes'. Album #2, the First Folder 1978

Valerii Lamakh made this drawing, called 'The Fourth Book of Schemes', with colored pencils, and it feels like a page from a secret instruction manual. I love the way he reduces everything to arrows and basic shapes. It’s like he’s trying to distill the world into its simplest components. Each panel is a small experiment, a different way of organizing space and movement. The colors are so direct, so unblended. Look at the top left panel – how the different colored arrows converge toward the center. There’s something playful but also very precise about it. It reminds me of some of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, but with a more personal, almost whimsical touch. You get the sense that Lamakh isn’t trying to give us definitive answers. Instead, he’s inviting us to question, to explore, and to find our own sense of order in the chaos. And isn’t that what art is all about?