Painting > Elementa Chemicae Triptych

Gold leaf and painted triptych illustrating the alchemy process to discover the Philosopher’s Stone (detail) Sun and Moon, Male and Female
Elementa Chemicae Triptych
Opened Bottom Left
# 9,10,11, 40
Gold Leaf and Acrylic paint on Wood
50 in H x 40 in W opened
2004

# 9, Sun and Moon, Male and Female, Sulfur and Mercury

# 10, Through the contact with the moon and the sun, philosophical mercury attains the power of fertilizing the earth.

# 11, Sulfur and mercury must be freed by the fire from the material that contains them.

# 40, In the ninth distillation of philosophical mercury the watery matter, followed by air strives upwards.