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For Meate or Medicine

January 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

The Fourth Book of Distillations containing many singular and secret recipes.

While sorting through the old books at the Horticultural Center, I picked up a musty old tome which I thought was a history of gardening. It turned out to be a book about alchemy and the construction of various types of stills. Most chapters focus on use of plants by the Puritans of New England [...]

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Hand and Heart

December 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Found and constructed objects. Charms for making, to keep the connection between hand and heart, to inspire a light touch and unburdened memory, a simultaneously focused and detached response to a wild flow of ideas and an overwhelming abundance of materials. Finishing a work of art is all about letting go.

Patin’d silver metal bezel and [...]

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Twilight in Autumn

November 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments

The fiery flowers of pineapple sage, young radishes in a driftwood bed, one last rose before winter, the sun shed at sunset, and an alchemical androgyne.

The Divine Hermaphrodite

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Serpentine Synchs

July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Spirit and Matter

A crowned and winged serpent, representing the universal or cosmic spirit holds a common snake by the tail.

http://arianadii.com/spirit-and-matter/

The ancient symbol of the Orphic Mysteries was the serpent-entwined egg, which signified Cosmos as encircled by the fiery Creative Spirit.

http://arianadii.com/the-world-egg/

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in spiritus (America)

February 5th, 2009 · No Comments

In alchemy, things in threes tend to symbolize the three elements (Sulphur, Salt, Mercury) as well as the Christian trinity of God. This esoteric image depicts a three-headed eagle astride a globe in which is represented three winds over the sea. Tom deForest of Small and Simple Things has another interesting take on this symbolism.

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