The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award 2006

Marcos Davidson

Artist statement

Lapidem

the one thing
Cloud of Unknowing
Through the book of Nature and by the embrace of the dark stage we let go of self induced restraint and the lesser
Sungold green moonsilver blue
Corpusmercury
Vermillion
Stone is formed of the meeting of all things; by imagination gently and with great
visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapindem
ingenuity reach divine passion and inspiration, exalted and commingled with light and
Chemical Wedding
all heart felt love, to return – to permanize the golden moment, taking joy from the
coagulation
great stone and the creation of the overself “to reinvent or set right”
the one thing
Lapidem Philosophus

quintessence

tincture

overself

“Lapidem” by Peter Merk, poet Laureate from the unknown worlds.

Through putrification comes the great gem;
veritable essence surviving.
The great gem is as a humble seed;
which when repeatedy kissed by Anima Sophia multiplicates as the fecundity of Natura.

The process described by Barrington.

burn off and lay waste
~in~
melee of compost
~with~
philosophy of chaos
~for~
self kindness.

Marcos Davidson, goldsmith