ATTENTION crafty Angelinos!
This is a call for people in LA who are into the making of dioramas… And who isn’t?
My good friend Margot announces LA diorama club, sister club to the infamous Brooklyn diorama club. The plan is to meet once a month, hang out, and display dioramas based on a previously assigned theme.
ASSIGNMENT 1
“Everything that happens once will never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
- The Alchemist
MEETING DATE & TIME: Tuesday, November 7th, 2006, 8PM
MEETING PLACE: TBA
THEME: ALCHEMY
Alchemy is generally known as the science of transforming base metals into gold. The word itself comes from the Arabic al-kīmiyaˀ or al-khīmiya, also cf. Persian kimia meaning “gold”. However, on a deeper level the work of alchemy (cloaked in allegorical images) has also represented the transformation of the soul. Alchemy combines elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism and art to investigate the mechanisms of nature as philosophical and spiritual disciplines.
What better to ponder over Friday the 13 th and Halloween, then something both scientific and spiritual, both mystical and medical, both mysterious and esoteric?….. and that is ALCHEMY….
Some keywords (just to get you started):
Glass, Iron, Circulating vessels, Pelicans, Double pelicans, Philosophers Egg, Casting cones, Receptacles, Funnels, Dyoptra, Combustion, Reverberation, Macrocosm, Microcosms, Transmutation, Hermeticism, Resolution of opposites (Male/female), Resolution of opposites (snake), Splendor solis, Crowning of Nature, Twelve Keys of Valentine, Lambspring, Donum Dei, Cabala mineralis, Petrus Bonus, The Four Humors, etc.
Please interpret the theme as freely as you want to, in fact the free-er the better. Then make a diorama and bring on the 7 th to share with us.
RULES:
1. THE DIORAMA SIZE MUST FIT WITHIN A 1.5FT CUBE MORE OR LESS
2. THE DIORAMA CAN BE MADE USING ANY MATERIALS YOU WANT
3. THE DIORAMA DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ENCLOSED OR BOXED IN
Please RSVP to: margot@keepcompany.com
Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
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oooooooo, alchemy will be a good one. once i remember the login to the brooklyn blog i’ll add a link to you guys. have fun!