This project by Vladimir Kustov is a study of self-identification issues in the context of compensatory properties of collecting. One of the main principles of collecting is the need of its author to show his collection to as many viewers as possible. There is logic, consistency and completeness in collecting. It is no coincidence that museum business has been developed all over the world, which is designed to demonstrate to people the best examples of human evolution.
Vladimir Kustov builds the basis of the composition of this work from objects of his collection of medical instruments. These are decommissioned instruments that have been used in St. Petersburg clinics for the past 50 years. These instruments died for medicine, but were revived for the collection. The central place of the composition is occupied by a hologram made according to the method of the Soviet physicist Yuri Denisyuk. As an object for the hologram, the artist uses macropreparations from the collection of E.S. Mishin. In his work, the author uses the characteristics and qualities of each color of the hologram, their relationship with time and space, with the viewer. The color of the image constantly shifts within the range from red-orange to green, depending on the level of humidity in the room and the nature of the emulsion layer. Ordered rows of numbers are located above the three-dimensional environment of the holography. The special property of the magic square is its ability to fill the work with an infinite semantic field caused by the diverse movement and direction of numbers. All this allows the artist Kustov to consider the magic square as nothing less than a living being, whose spirit, according to the author's definition, is called into the world to harmonize chaos.
