After playing with numerology and digital roots of each times table after a break up, (it kept my mind busy!) I noticed all the numerical patterns and transferred the data to a circle of 9 points, as most of them were in a sequence of 9 which then repeated.
To explain further, if you take the 1 x table - 1x1 through to 1x9, you get a sequence of numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. If you then do 1x10 and keep going and then simplifying these next numbers down to their digital root, eg 10 becomes 1 so the sequence restarts. or 22 would become 2+2=4 and you will end up repeating the pattern of 9 numbers (or 3!) The opposite goes for the 8 times table, for example, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96 becomes 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 9, 8, 7, 6 etc and repeats. The pattern of numbers makes the same shape as the 1 times table, but it travels in the opposite direction.
The same goes for each of the other pairs of numbers. They make their own pattern but one goes clockwise and the other anti clockwise.
What I found fascinating, after making all the shapes, was that the numbers 0-4 made a mirror image of 5-9, and each pair of numbers also adds up to 9:
0+9 both don't make a shape and have a single fixed point, (all 9x tables equal 9 when digits added, same as all zero tables equal 0) 1+8 both make a basic nonogram, 2+7 make a regular star nonogram 9/2, 3+6 are the special ones making a triangle, and 4+5 make a regular star nonogram 9/4.
It displays the following concepts:
As above, so below
everything is nothing and nothing is everything (0 + 9 are the same and this is displayed in other mathematical sequence patterns too - 9 will replace the zero which is usually at the beginning of certain sequences)
3 is masculine, 6 is feminine and 9 is God. These numbers stand out from the rest. I believe 3 and 6 are the 2 special numbers that make up the holy Trinity with 9 (God)
the relation to the shape of the letters and the shape of reproductive anatomy, 9 is male looking, 0 is female looking (which makes sense to me because even numbers are feminine and odd are masculine) zero is an even number because 0x2=0 and any number times 2 is even. It also comes before 1 which is odd. I'm such a geek haha.
The 9 faces of the pyramids corresponds (in my opinion) to the Great Ennead (9 gods of Egyptian creation myths) these are also 4 pairs of beings with Sun God Atum being alone (9) but 0 would be its pair which is why its not counted in the myth (my opinion)
The 2 triangles created by 3 and 6, when mirrored, come together to form the seal of Solomon, the Union of opposites, or a 2d star tetrahedron. (I was also trying to mathematically link these 5 sets of pairs of numbers to the 5 platonic solids but I am not quite there yet/dont have enough confidence in my workings out- next painting maybe!)
9 and 0 are fixed single points which is a similar concept to the circumpunct or the tao from Taoism
I is the 9th letter of alphabet. I is eye and God is within us all (God is within I) and I think he uses our eyes to experience and see life through us all at the same time. The eyes are the windows to the soul beneath.
9 regions of the abdomen, 9 month pregnancy, Umbilical at the centre of the grid, also like the Tao, connecting us to life, allowing us to feed and grow.
YGGDRASIL is the world tree from Norse mythology - around it exists all else, including the 9 world's. I was so proud of this tree and its the first natural looking tree I've painted.
Odin hung from the tree to gain knowledge for 9days and 9 nights
I also came up with the number diamond on the middle right hand side. It shows the mathematical workings that if you add the numbers next to each other it makes the one above it, and the same below. I haven't seen this before and I found it myself through playing with number pyramids and shapes.
I truly believe in as above so below. I also made odin signal the as above so below hand sign on his right hand.
I haven't found any of my findings online or evidence it has previously been explored by other people. I even photographed the chart and individual nonograms, searched them on google and couldn't find anything relating to what I've found.
These ideas are new and original as far as I know and I'd love them to be recognised and acknowledged by the art and mathematical communities and expanded upon. This work came from above not from within, and encouraged me to be curious and almost pointed it out to me I feel.
