alchemy

alchemy, transmutation
how change manifests physically & mentally.

painting as icon--where it serves a document of a point in mental space.
as a trigger for memory, like a smell.
synesthetic.
rather than just a simple rendering of something symbolic & specific to a banal societal cliche.


the current piece is of a girl standing on a black sun floating in a misty pool of water. her torso is open revealing a caduceus--purifying snake, christ/mercury, & cleansing water. it refers to sophia--wisdom.
the idea of wisdom through change.

convergence--taking several influences in your life & combining them in a necessary combination to reveal new ways of seeing yourself & how you relate to the environment you have chosen.

it's like the tarot--disparate symbology that the brain automatically rearranges to suit the need. hence the true usage of archetypal imagery, iconography.

each one creates a new combination.