{"id":1211,"date":"1987-01-03T00:07:48","date_gmt":"1987-01-03T04:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2012-06-11T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:08:17","slug":"operation-of-the-sun-through-the-cult-of-the-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/operation-of-the-sun-through-the-cult-of-the-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation of the Sun through the Cult of the Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n1987
\n70 varieties of traditional to arcane materials and chemicals
\n10 x 17 x 60 feet<\/p>\n

A mythic, alchemic, scientific investigation into the origins of words, materials, and form, from Chinese and Greek sources. Based on the solar system, astrophysics, exploratory data from Pioneer 10 and Mariner 4, and rare books on the subject of alchemy.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mercury: The Principle of Polarity \u2013The Orbital Rebus<\/em>
\nwood, magnet made from everyday metal<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nMercury: ball<\/em>
\ncopper, nickel, brass, steel, iron, rare earth metals<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nVenus: Conjunction & Entrapment<\/em>
\nleft leaning oyster in a heart-shaped puzzle of copper, steel shucker, net shaped like the Ys and Cs, cuprous nitrate used to patina metal<\/p>\n

\"\"(lower) Earth: Ceration & Putrefaction<\/em>
\ndelta-shaped “core” sample of iron, steel, granite, twigs, fungi, bark, earth, wax
\n(upper) Mars: Fixation and Desecration<\/em>
\nchiseled steel, camellia oil, olive branches embedded in clay, arranged in the shaped of the Chinese character “Fa”<\/p>\n

\"\"Jupiter: Circulation & Self Sacrifice<\/em>
\nhand blown glass, red oak, silk<\/p>\n

\"\"Saturn: Deception & Digestion<\/em>
\nrawhide, lead(Pb) with vein patterns from human head, salt<\/p>\n

\"\"Uranus: Castration and Concealment<\/em>
\nChinese paper, gauze, mud, ash, spikes, brad, squid ink, Chinese silk, cherry, chalk<\/p>\n

\"\"Uranus<\/em> (detail)<\/p>\n

\"\"Neptune: Filtration, Purification, and Desire<\/em>
\nbronze, black gorgonian fan coral, cast wax, cannabis<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nPluto: Projection & Permutation<\/em>
\ncoal, helmet of alchemic gold (arsenic, copper, manganese), more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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