Showing posts with label alchemy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alchemy. Show all posts
Thursday, September 18, 2025

The Imaginarium (Complete, final revision: 9/20/25))

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The sky erupts in a vaporous vision; ( Aqua Vitae , the Water of Life, the Living Water.) • Welcome to the Imaginarium where a vacant space ...
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Friday, August 8, 2025

The Philosopher's Dove (with Addendum)

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  The enigmatic glyph of a pigeon poised in flight, Albuquerque - one frame of a cellphone video - June 2, 2025, DS. A pigeon is considered ...
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Friday, August 9, 2024

The Dürer Files: 1. "Melencolia I" & The Golden Egg (Updated 8/11/2024)

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"For the alchemists the vessel is something truly marvelous: a vas mirabile. Maria Prophetissa says that the whole secret lies in knowi...
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Saturday, October 29, 2022

Samhain, 2022; Leonora Carrington and the Philosophic Egg

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The Chair, Daghda Tuatha de Danaan , 1955, Leonora Carrington. Incidentally, the Internet Archive link presented here is a great source for ...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

A Journey to the Bottom of a Rabbit Hole (Interlude #3)

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Rosslyn Chapel - window on north side. Photo credit ©: Rob Farrow. (All images in this post can be clicked-on for original size.) ...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

The Starman & The Swan People (Part II)

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"Some Sanskrit mystics locate seven planes of being, the seven spiritual lokas or worlds within the body of Kala Hamsa, the Swan ou...
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Thursday, June 8, 2017

For the Angels - 3:03; the Passions of Angels (Part II)

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Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour ( Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss ) - marble sculpture - 1793, Antonio Canova, housed in ...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Eye of Newt

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Still Life with a Salamander  - digital - 2005, 2016 "Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Restoration of Symmetry: The Philosopher's Stone

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The illustration for Michael Maier's 21st alchemical Emblem from  Atalanta Fugiens , by Swiss engraver,  Matthäus Merian , 1617. (...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Triangulation & The 3 Hares (In Memory of a Beautiful Mind)

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Four Degrees of Triangulation - 2015, DS "Each planet has energy through it via a visible light spectrum and produces it’s own o...
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

The Magic of Art & The Art of Magic

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"Personaje Astral"  - oil on board - 1961 -  Remedios Varo "Behind the veil of all the hieratic and my...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Alchemy of a Found Object

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Alchemy of a Found Object - triptych (details) - 2009, DS (click to enlarge) "Jung held that in human life we possess tw...
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

The Trans-figure

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By definition, figurative art is defined as art representing objects or figures from the "real world". Transfigurativism...
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