The three diptychs form my BA graduation body of work, titled “White. Texture. Ascension. Transmutation.”. Conceived as a cohesive and interdependent visual system, the series explores the three fundamental alchemical stages — Nigredo, Albedo, and Rubedo — translated into a plastic language rooted in symbolic imagery, material transformation, and a refined attention to surface.

Each diptych engages with a distinct phase of this process: from dissolution and opacity, to purification and emergence, and ultimately toward completion and integration. Drawing from the visual vocabulary of alchemical symbolism, the works unfold through layered textures, controlled tensions, and subtle shifts in pictorial matter, allowing meaning to arise gradually rather than as a fixed or illustrative narrative. The compositions operate through accumulation, erasure, and reconfiguration, echoing the cyclical nature of transformation.

Within this framework, texture becomes both structure and metaphor. The works do not aim to depict alchemy, but to embody its logic, proposing a space in which transformation is experienced rather than represented. In this sense, the series reflects on transmutation as both a material and inner process, where states of instability, refinement, and synthesis are held in continuous dialogue.

The diptychs function simultaneously as autonomous works and as interconnected components of a larger system, inviting a sustained, contemplative engagement. Through their restrained yet charged visual language, they open a space for reflection on the dynamics of change, ascension, and the possibility of becoming.