As Above, So Below

Using pigments ground from mineral stones and stone meteorites, as well as ash burned from dandelions, the artist painted a series of three works on glass. In the paintings, the life cycle of a dandelion is paralleled with celestial events.

“As Above, So Below” is the second line of the famous Emerald Tablet. Medieval European alchemists considered this hermetic text to be foundational to their field. The phrase refers to the correspondences between the macrocosm (the wider universe) and the microcosm (the individual). What occurs in the spiritual world, or on a higher level of reality, is reflected in the physical world, or on lower levels.