From the diary of Anaïs Nin
”So delicacy and violence are about to meet and challenge each other.
The image this brings to my mind is an alchemist workshop.
Beautiful crystal bottles communicating with each other by a system of fragile crystal canals. These transparent bottles show nothing but jeweled, colored liquids or clouded water of smoke, giving to the external eye an abstract aesthetic pleasure. The consciousness of danger, fatal mixtures, is known only to the chemist.
I feel like a well-appointed laboratory of the soul - myself my home, my life - in which none of the vitally fecund or destructive, explosive experiments has yet begun. I like the shape of the bottles, the colors of the chemicals. I collect bottles, and the more they look like alchemist bottles the more I like them for their eloquent forms.” p. 8
This passage instills what it is about our project that draws me forward: