I have long been interested in visual symbolic languages, especially those whose scope of comprehension is both geographically and temporally far-reaching. Although I would not condescend to describe the "vocabularies" featured in this piece as anywhere near universal, I do believe that they resonate at some level, whether their referents are fully recognized or not. My goal in this piece was to force the disparate vocabularies of color, alchemy, and catholic symbology into a dialogue - an indecipherable code that refers to the quest for understanding (and controlling knowledge) that underlies religious and alchemic practices alike.
This installation was first displayed in the spring of 2009. It featured three components, each on its own wall of the exhibition space. The wall to the left of the entryway featured found objects on shelves positioned in a scatter plot/flow chart formation. The adjacent wall was covered in symbols arranged in a grid-pattern reminiscent of the periodic table, and a painting, functioning as a sort of color code occupied the wall on the right.
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