twelve from one
acrylic on renovation fleece, approximately 21 cm x 30 cm, 2021.
twelve: Reptiles, birds and mammals have twelve pairs of cranial nerves, connecting muscles and sense organs of the head and neck (including senses of vision, taste, smelling and hearing) directly to the brain.
eleven: The sun's magnetic field flips periodically every eleven years with each sunspot cycle, causing a maximum of solar flares, sunspots and auroras.'
ten: The perfect number according to th Pythagoreans who believed that a tenth heavenly body named Counter-Earth existed behind the Central Fire and is therefore always hidden from us.
nine: In Greek mythology, an anvil needs nine days to fall from heaven to earth and another nine days to fall from earth to Tartarus, the deep abyss of the underworld.
eight: The eighth tooth in each quadrant of adult dentition s called "wisdom tooth" since the time of Hippocrates, as they tend to appear when humans are adults and allegedly much wiser.
seven: Most commonly, seven main colors are visible in a rainbow, but the perceived number may actually depend on the number of color words in a given language.
six: 98% of all living matter on earth consist of combinations of six chemical elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
five: "Das Pentagramma macht dir Pein?"
four: Solid, liquid, gas and plasma (positively charged nuclei swimming in a sea of freely moving electrons) are the four fundamental states of matter.
three: Humans perceive three spatial dimensions and are trichromatic with three different types of cone cells in our eyes to distinguish colors.
two: Wherever there is light, there is shadow.
one: Beyond all attributes, beyond being and non-being, beyond me and you ...
all is one
