The works on show as part of the VÄXT exhibition in Lund are evidently inanimate works of art. As such they may come as a disappointment...

... it feels like it might be. The exhibition by Danish artist Marie Louise Kold that opened at the Jäger & Jansson Galleri in Lund on...

It would appear that the the 'Book of Secrets' and the "Book of Life" are recent creations, not the product of 19th Century alchemists....

This is a copper book that has been referred to as ‘The Book of Life’. It appears to be made from thin copper sheets bound into a book....

During the high middle ages the Gråbröder district was at the centre of the city of Lund. Evidence of its rich and eventful past lies...

If one were able to bring an inanimate, inorganic, material to life, what lifeforms would it be capable of generating. This question is...

Some amazing work from the University of Glasgow, showing how some of the characteristics of living cells can be realised in purely...

This book is made from copper. It is currently in a private collection in Sweden and is presumed to have originated in Sweden. Methods...

“And being burnt to ashes they make many and divine works and various colours [...] leading the nature back outside to the visible. On...

QUI SCIT COMBURERE AQUA ET LAVARE IGNE FACIT DE TERRA CAELUM ET DE CAELO TERRAM PRETIOSAM He who knows how to burn with water and wash...

In mediaeval times Franciscan monks , also known as Greyfriars, or Grey Brothers, were closely associated with alchemical studies. In the...

It seems that most of the work over the past century that seeks to infuse the life force into inanimate systems comes under the general...

This conference "Animal, Vegetal, Mineral" looks like it might be interesting. Is anyone able to go or to get hold of the presentations?...

The gulf between the animate and the inanimate is deep and assumed to be unbridgeable. It seems obvious that no amount of effort, no...