Alchemy into Art: Inside the process

This collection exists at the intersection of art, chemistry, and transformation. I combine traditional pigments with reactive materials such as wine, iron acetate, iodine, citric acid and calcium hydroxide, allowing chemical interaction to become active participants in the creative process. These materials stain, oxidize, bloom, crystallize and evolve in ways that cannot be fully predicted or controlled.

What draws me to this process is its unpredictability. Rather than imposing a fixed outcome, I enter into a dialogue with the materials, observing their responses and allowing them to reveal possibilities I could not have planned. Each painting becomes a collaboration between intention and emergence, structure and spontaneity.

On a deeper level, this process reflects my understanding of transformation itself. Alchemy has long served as a metaphor for inner change, the movement from fragmentation toward integration, from the ordinary toward the essential. The physical reactions occurring within the work mirror the unseen transformations that occur within us: dissolution, tension, adaptation and renewal.

The painting is not something I simply make, it is something I engage with, listen to and develop a relationship with over time.

Through this practice, I explore the dynamic balance between control and surrender, creation and decay, matter and mystery. Each piece becomes a record of transformation, a living conversation between the seen and unseen forces that shape both art and life.