Wild Alchemy Journal – Aether edition

Wild Alchemy Journal Aether edition is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Each issue will explore one of the classical elements of earth, air, fire, water and aether. These fundamental forces provide the foundations from which to investigate how we place ourselves, and how we are placed, within our environment across the three perspective planes of physical-material, mental-emotional and spiritual-energetic.

This Winter marks the printing of our latest edition of the journal: AETHER.

Wild Alchemy Journal is a multi-sensory print edition of art, text and smell with augmented audio-visual content exploring nature, science and esoterica. Each issue navigates one of the classical elements of earth, fire, water, air and aether. These fundamental forces provide the foundations from which to investigate how we place ourselves, and how we are placed, within our environment across the three perspective planes of physical-material, mental-emotional and spiritual-energetic. Our contributors are a global community at the intersection of plants, planets and people.

Wild Alchemy Lab is a new transdisciplinary platform from experimental botanical studio Mama Xanadu: a vehicle in which to navigate our fractured relationship with nature and the cosmos through both a scientific and esoteric lens. We take up the macro-microcosmic vision of the Hermetic axiom ‘as above, so below’ – all aspects of universal phenomena correspond and relate to one another. This places our work at the intersection of plants, planets and people.

Alchemy is the arcane art of transformation, the physical and psycho-spiritual practice of elevating the base elements of our experience to a noble state. Central to alchemical philosophy is the death process: death begets life. To evolve beyond crisis, outdated systems and thought forms are dissolved to be reconstituted into a new, more valued way of being. Through an act of collaboration and co-creation, with nature as our guide and medium, we explore ways to distil our experience and transform its vital force into an embodied sensory ecology.

Wild Alchemy Journal is here, a trip into the ancient future begins with this inaugural edition of Wild Alchemy Journal. Each issue will explore one of the classical elements of earth, air, fire, water and aether. These fundamental forces provide the foundations from which to investigate how we place ourselves, and how we are placed, within our environment across the three perspective planes of physical-material, mental-emotional and spiritual-energetic. Wild Alchemy Journal is a mixed-media platform from botanical studio Mama Xanadu, exploring our fractured relationship with nature and the cosmos through both a scientific and esoteric lens.

Content

• In a radical new format to honour the aether element, this issue is an augmented-reality playable artwork and the first of its kind. 
• Giant 70 x 100 cm (B1) double-sided print.
• Cover artwork and animation by Reza Hasni. 
• Reverse contains the 72 journal pages as 72 augmented-reality images linking to audio-visual content from our global collective of artists and practitioners.
• Unique portal to articles, interviews and extended interactive content on a hidden link within our web platform. 
• Playable fortune teller artwork by Daniel Martin Diaz and divination matrix that will allow for random navigation of the journal to reveal subtle correspondences and  unlock hidden content. 
• Once you have completed your multi-dimensional exploration, choose the final form your journal takes by either framing the print or transforming it into an origami polyhedra sculpture of one of the platonic solids, guided by renowned origami master John Montroll.

Details: Wild Alchemy Journal – Aether edition

72 pages
Large Format: 335 x 245 mm
Lithographic print, recycled and carbon neutral
Fold-out art print poster on biodegradable laminate
Numbered, limited edition