been separated is reunited, yet on the higher level of assimilation. In that, one must trace the same law of organized chaos, according to which the multiplicity of creation is, in its essence, a unity. That concept can be stored in the human brain in thousands of pictures. To present some of them in their diversity, we would like to digress to our early work, touching upon the same subject but using a completely different language of forms. The red figure of One-Man Show, one of the Cubic Organisms created by Rimma, personifies a random individual, so to speak, the man in the street, whom we meet by pure chance. This has to be seen, not in context of sociology, but from the perspective of a metaphoric art. Suspended by strings from the ceiling, the red figure is similar to a puppet manipulated by rods, only we do not know whom and where its puppeteer might be. Like an organism that consists of many cells and a plurality of thoughts, the suspended individual is composed of the separate cubes united by one string. Each cube can be opened and contemplated; each cell holds a clue to some life experience. For example, the central interconnected cube with the interior text, “I consider myself independent from the rest of the cells,� suggests one of the typical individualistic thoughts that contrasts with the reality
R. G., One-Man Show, 1982, detail, the interior of one of the cubes
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