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Riddles on the walls at Okeshkin Club

Now, the new centre of Okeshkin Club at 6 Kotsyubynskoho Street has a children’s playground painted with riddles. The brick wall was painted by Kyiv painter Lesya Kara-Kotsya, one of the authors of “Riddle Playground” for children, which will be opened in October at Peyzazhnaya Alleya.

“I was asked to paint the walls. And it was my idea to paint them with riddles,” said the painter in an interview for “Hazeta po-Kyivs’ky”.

It took Lesya Kara-Kotsya 120 hours and nearly two weeks to do this. There are traditional Ukrainian riddles on the walls. Nevertheless, you will have to break your head over the pictures as well. For example, the sun has a stalk and its big rays resemble the leaves of a sunflower. There is a riddle under the picture: “There is a willow in the village. It lets its branches down to the ground”. And there is an answer “The Sun” below the picture, upside down though, so that nobody guesses.

“I thought out such pictures that resembled riddles, not answers,” says Lesya. “That is why the sky with stars is painted as a cloth and clouds are in the form of women. As the riddle says: one cloth carried seven women…”

Photo by Serhiy DEMCHUK