The obscure gray water is dotted with fishing boats, which brush the calm surface, each caulked with a paste of alchemical silvers. |
It's a pretty thorough analysis comparing alchemical symbology with dream symbology. |
Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a tonic herb. |
Kessler's play is less alchemical than Polke's, but the impulse to incorporate the elements into a painting is the same. |
In the various scientific botanical gardens of the Renaissance, scented plants were plumbed for possible alchemical properties. |
Or perhaps it was the aura of alchemical mystique that surrounds the whole idea of breadmaking? |