This novel is a violent weather experiment conducted on the human field. Catherine and Heathcliff are paired excitations—two particles whose mutual attraction generates storms rather than stability. Their bond resembles the strong force: binding with overwhelming intensity at close range but catastrophic at any distance. Wuthering Heights itself is a high-energy chamber, a region where … Continue reading 59. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) by French author Marcel Proust
What’s the longest book you’ve ever read? The original title of this series of books was “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu”. While In Search of Lost Time is structurally seven major thematic volumes, it is physically over 3,000 pages long. Binding that much text into just seven books creates incredibly thick, heavy volumes. To … Continue reading In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) by French author Marcel Proust
The First Division
What happens when a book begins to change before it is opened? A book can remain closed and still begin to change. Before there is a story, there is a separation. Somewhere inside the unopened volume, a line of blue attention begins to draw itself upward. It is precise. Cool. Almost architectural. It knows the … Continue reading The First Division
Black, Green, Pink at Scherben.
The curatorial aim of this exhibition is to look at how artists use color and movement to create deep, painting-like spaces, while also challenging how we see those spaces.Using abstract painting as its starting point, the exhibition Black, Green, Pink wants to bring original, rebellious energy into our modern, tech-driven world and look ahead to … Continue reading Black, Green, Pink at Scherben.
58. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
Edmond Dantès undergoes a dramatic energy transition: from innocent low-energy state to a nearly mythic high-energy presence fueled by betrayal and rebirth. His imprisonment at Château d’If resembles confinement in an extreme potential well, compressing suffering until it becomes transformative. The Abbé Faria acts as a Higgs-like mentor, imparting mass, knowledge, and purpose. Upon escape, … Continue reading 58. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
Why Release the Book Simultaneously in Spanish and English?
The simultaneous Spanish and English release of The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation / The Book of Split Ink reflects the book’s own logic of duality and relation. Rooted in Barcelona yet conceived for an international readership, the two editions act as parallel linguistic bodies around the same visual-symbolic architecture—one work, two languages, and a shared field of meaning.
A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy — looking for the monster
I went to Nadim Choufi’s A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy at Pickle Bar in Berlin expecting, perhaps, to encounter a work about diplomacy, monstrosity and political power. I did not expect to find myself thinking so directly about my own work. The performance begins with a poet sending his editor his final poem … Continue reading A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy — looking for the monster
57. The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
D’Artagnan and the musketeers form a delightfully dynamic composite particle—each member with a unique charge yet bound together by the strong force of loyalty. Their adventures constitute a series of high-energy scattering events: duels, intrigues, seductions, and diplomatic collisions. Cardinal Richelieu operates as a master of long-range interactions, shaping political trajectories with invisible precision. Milady … Continue reading 57. The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
This Book Is for You If You Want More Than a Story
If you are an art lover who enjoys looking as deeply as reading, or a reader drawn to symbolism, experimentation, transformation, and hidden structures, this book was designed with you in mind. The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation / The Book of Split Ink invites you to move between image and narrative, interpretation and intuition, reading and rereading—becoming not just an observer, but an active participant in the work.
56. The Charterhouse of Parma — Stendhal
Fabricio del Dongo is a young excitation let loose in the chaotic field of Napoleonic Europe, where political energies collide and scatter like volatile particles. Stendhal frames Fabricio’s innocence as a kind of near-zero mass: he drifts unpredictably through war, romance, and intrigue, responding more to random fluctuations than calculated vectors. The Battle of Waterloo … Continue reading 56. The Charterhouse of Parma — Stendhal
next year.
If you could relive one year of your life, which one would it be? Fiddling with the past is a tricky thing. I feel relatively well about my current state of affairs. Don't want to come back from my sabbatical of life to find out that I'm suddenly married to the dragon queen. Would rather … Continue reading next year.
Beyond the Illustrated Book: Could Chimeric Literature Become a New Art Form?
A possible future for literature may lie not in adding images to books, but in creating works where image and language become equally active forms of thought. In this chimeric model, visual art gains syntax, literature becomes spatial, and the reader moves between looking, reading, and rereading as an active participant. The result could be a new hybrid form in which meaning is not simply delivered—it emerges through relation, attention, and return.
55. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Victor Hugo
Quasimodo is a particle of singular geometry—massive, asymmetrical, misunderstood. Society’s detectors misread him due to his external configuration, failing to perceive the luminous internal charge he carries. Esmeralda is a radiant boson, transmitting beauty and kindness into spaces thickened by prejudice. Claude Frollo, however, is a decaying excitation: his internal contradictions generate destructive interference, culminating … Continue reading 55. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Victor Hugo
The Companion Manual: A Key to Reading the Chimeric Glyphic System
The free companion manual, accessible through the QR code on the book’s final page, offers readers a practical way into the Chimeric Glyphic System. It explains the system’s canonical glyphs, master sectors, formation rules, grammar, pathways, and reading methods, but it is best used as a compass rather than an answer key. Read the plate first, consult the manual to clarify its structure and relations, then return to the book and allow the meaning to deepen through rereading.
54. The Red and the Black — Stendhal
Julien Sorel is an ambitious excitation seeking upward mobility in a stratified field. His dual nature—romantic passion (the red) and calculated ambition (the black)—functions like two competing spin states, alternating in dominance depending on context. Julien navigates salons, churches, and barracks like a cunning particle seeking optimal potential wells. Yet each triumph reveals a deeper … Continue reading 54. The Red and the Black — Stendhal
Two Bodies, One Work: How to Read The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and The Book of Split Ink
The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and The Book of Split Ink are designed as two interdependent bodies: one encodes the laws of transformation through glyphs, while the other gives those laws memory, experience, and consciousness. The reader moves between them as an Alchemist, reading plate into story and story back into plate, until meaning emerges from the relation itself.
53. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Austen’s world is a low-energy landscape governed by social potentials—subtle, precise, exquisitely sensitive to small fluctuations in reputation and decorum. Elizabeth Bennet is a charged particle with high mobility, darting through the field with wit as her spin. Darcy is massive, initially inert, but capable of dramatic symmetry shifts when the right interaction perturbs him. … Continue reading 53. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Gala and Salvador: The Resurrected Couple Inside the Chimeric System
Gala and Salvador awaken not as historical ghosts, but as resurrected alter egos generated by the Chimeric system itself. Sharing one body while remaining two distinct consciousnesses, they embody a living tension between structure and memory, measure and instinct, control and transformation. Their journey through The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and The Book of Split Ink becomes an experiment in relation: not how two identities can merge, but how they can remain separate, evolve, and bear the weight of becoming together.
52. The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Werther is a hypercharged particle whose emotional field overwhelms any attempt at moderation. His passion for Lotte becomes a runaway reaction, amplifying itself until it consumes all available energy. Goethe portrays youthful emotion as a near-relativistic force, beautiful but dangerous, capable of producing devastating radiation when uncontrolled. Werther’s letters are emissions of inner heat—bursts of … Continue reading 52. The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
CGS: Toward a New Language Between Image and Literature
I see the Chimeric Glyphic System (CGS) not simply as a collection of symbols, nor as an invented alphabet, but as an attempt to create a new space between visual art and literature. My ambition is to develop it into a language in which an image can be read, a sentence can be seen, a … Continue reading CGS: Toward a New Language Between Image and Literature