DESCRIPTION

Books seem to straddle the world of the physical and the intangible; they are material objects that tether us to nebulous clouds of knowledge. The book is a vessel that readily stores information, and in reading it we are able to access and retrieve something that is not physically ‘there’.

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Volumes of 410 blank pages are bound together and subjected to various alchemical processes. By this act, each book is transformed and becomes an artefact of its making; an embodiment of the very knowledge that has transformed it. 

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In opposition to existing alchemical texts, which obfuscate their meaning with inaccessible language and allegory, these books embody their subject matter and express it outwardly.