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
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#12,13, 41, 42
Gold Leaf and Acrylic paint on Wood
50 in H x 40 in W opened
2004

# 12, Purification of philosophical mercury by sublimation

# 13 Philosophical mercury is joined once more to its sulfur, so that a homogenous liquid is produced

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

# 42, In the tenth distillation and the subsequent moistening the elements are divided in two.