1to9 is a series that explores the poetics of numbers and the imagery they evoke through associative perception. It examines how numerals relate to words, everyday objects, and visual metaphors, connecting numerical forms to sensory and symbolic meanings.

Inspired by the English savant Daniel Tammet, who experiences numbers as vivid shapes, motions, and textures, this project embraces a way of seeing where calculation becomes intuition and form becomes meaning. As Tammet describes, numbers transform and interact visually, revealing answers as emergent imagery rather than logical steps.

My interest in the imagery of numbers stems from a personal relationship shaped by dyslexia and dyscalculia. Numbers have long been elusive to me, difficult to process and easy to misread. Yet paradoxically, I find myself drawn to them, not through logic or calculation but through intuition. I engage with numbers less as abstract symbols and more as forms I feel my way around. This intuitive approach opens a space where numbers shed their rigidity and become poetic, sensorial, even emotional. By reimagining numbers through visual and metaphorical associations, I seek to translate a cognitive challenge into an artistic language. It is an attempt to invite others to perceive numbers not as barriers but as portals into an altered way of sensing the world.

1to9 invites reflection on how perception, emotion, and imagination can transform even the most rational of symbols. Rather than offering definitions, the works suggest and evoke, allowing numbers to take on new and unexpected dimensions.