Alchemy

Black Bough Doll

Painting - portrait of a Doll from "The Catharsis of Ophelia" series, art by Barbara Agreste.

oil on canvas
77 x 51 cm
2011

Black Bough Doll

Ophelia Catharsis

Ophelia Catharsis and Nigredo, the Catarsis is here an Alchemical phase of purification...

oil on canvas
77 x 51 cm
2011

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Ophelia Catharsis

Nigredo

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NIGREDO

Alchemy is like a thin line suspended between the esoteric and philosophy, physics and religion.It is an unstable structure founded on its own symbols interwoven with infinite recurring relationships, there to find a hope for an eternal life, or a savage philosopher‘s stone. The alchemical process revolves around “transformation”, the will to change shapes and materials through three fundamental stages.

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