It seems that Avvakumov is particularly attracted by space, whether it be open marine space or open space on land, that is only viewable, and thus cannot be subjected to precise and concrete development. The smooth surfaces of the sea and of fields transform into a game of perspectives, points of convergence and divergence, and thus on the images of the seascapes the artist overlays tables for the testing of vision: the traditional letter test (the ШБМНК table devised by Sivtsev) and the graphic test with rings developed by Landolt. The layers of various realities overlap one another, but this is not, for example, Bulatov’s interrelations between the text and image in the background – it is a play with meaning, an optical trick that knocks out of the spectator the arrogance of self-satisfied expectations and the seemingly guaranteed result that arises on viewing natural expanses.