The works in the Equity Gallery courtyard live together and share interest in counting, numbers as carriers, sequence and frontal display. Three inviting niches were our beginning point. “Three” has simultaneous stability and a registration of openness, as is the tendency of all odd numbers. Two of us attempt to manage three spaces, structures, objects, places, energies that assert as individuals with common concern. Two objects straddle a central number. The objects function as simple counting machines and reference tools that originated in 300 B.C.E.. The choice of 47 baseballs is specific and purposeful as is the selection of 47 wooden axe handles. Utility is changed in both cases. We can no longer hit or throw the baseballs, or chop with the axes.  The ax is now a gentle piece of formed wood. We can slide the handles and baseballs and use them for a different purpose. We can now count. We interact with these objects in clear, simple ways, driven by task or play. The wooden number 21 is central and asserts with quiet authority. It is not arbitrary and is a holder of energies and ideas. It is supported, though not explained, by its neighbors.