Shane Lavalette

Untitled #60, Chicago, 2002
© Laura Letinsky

22 divided by 7 approximates the number π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
22 is the atomic number of titanium.
There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
Psalm 22 (22nd in the Book of Psalm in the King James Bible), described by the New American Standard Bible as the “A Cry of Anguish and a Song of Praise”, is the Psalm to which the crucified and dying Jesus makes reference, citing its first verse in Aramaic (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34).
In the divinatory tarot, there are 22 major arcana cards.
In Jay-Z’s song “22 Two’s”, he rhymes the words ‘too’, ‘to’ and ‘two’, 22 times in the first verse.
The typical (minimum) number of episodes in a season for a television program broadcast on a major American network is 22.
Twenty-Two, Season 2–episode 17 (February 10, 1961) of the 1959-64 TV series The Twilight Zone in which a hospitalized dancer has nightmares about a sinister nurse inviting her to Room 22, the hospital morgue.
In French, “22″ is used as a phrase to warn of the coming of the police (typically “22, v’là les flics !”, “22, here come the cops!”).
f/22 is the largest f-stop (and thus smallest aperture) available on most lenses made for single-lens reflex cameras.

22 is also the number of years I’ve been alive today!