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

Valerii Lamakh made 'The Fourth Book of Schemes' without a determined date by combining ink, gouache, and paper. I can imagine Lamakh meticulously constructing this piece. It's almost like he's drafting some secret visual language, a code that maybe only he fully understood. Each circle, divided by crosshairs, feels like its own little world. And the way they're arranged—four around one—suggests some sort of system or maybe a map. I feel Lamakh was on a quest to make sense of it all, one circle, one line at a time. The precision is really striking. The small arrowheads around the perimeters create tension, as if trying to contain the energy of those dark circles. You know, it reminds me a bit of Hilma af Klint’s diagrammatic paintings. There’s a similar sense of trying to visualize something beyond the surface. It’s a reminder that art is often about the questions we ask, rather than the answers we find.