Painting > Elementa Chemicae Triptych

Gold leaf and painted triptych illustrating the alchemy process to discover the Philosopher’s Stone detail
Elementa Chemicae Triptych
Opened Top Left
Images #1, 2, 32, 33
Gold Leaf and Acrylic paint on Wood
50 in H x 40 in W opened
2004

# 1, The emblems of the lapis on the crescent moon
Normal gold (lion) must be twice driven by antimony in order to lose its impurities.
The dragon is Philosophical quicksilver (mercury).

# 2, The alchemist assures himself of God’s presence in the work.

# 32, #33, The re-stratification of the elements in the container repeatedly extracting with the mercurial spirit and then pouring it back