#brian cotnoir

“And since the changes occurring in the flask also occur or resonate within the alchemist, the color comes to symbolize or express both the change occurring in the prima materia and the awakening in the alchemist/artist themself.”

Through the interaction of subject and object we discover the web of relations, and in changing the object through work or manipulation, the subject is also changed. Its identity is only an identity in relation to its object, and as the object changes so does the subject. The object, thus worked or "alchemized," carries a memory of sorts; one that creates the final object through its chain of existence, the vaporous twistings of the relationships that give rise to the subject and the object. In this cycle it gains the power of powers, imprinting on the final object the experience of discovery or exploration in order to realize one's self in one's creation.