Daily Archives: August 30, 2008

No painting today, instead I turned my attention to doing some more study of alchemical symbolism, in particular Adam, the first man, who is used as a symbol of the prima materia in the alchemical process. The goal of alchemy … Continue reading →

In a fit of ego-mania I did a search for my name on an anagram solving website. It turns out that “Michael” is an anagram of “Al chemi” (The arabic word from which we get “Alchemy” is الكيمياء al-kÄ«miā’). “Michael … Continue reading →