The final page is not an ending.Every system has a temptation. Closure. The completed diagram. The final answer. The last piece placed into the correct position. The Chimera resists this.Toward the end of the book, Gala and Salvador begin to work with cards. On one side, observations are recorded: position, orientation, sequence, conditions. On the … Continue reading The Unwritten Plate
Barcelona Is the Glyph
A city can be a system of memory, structure and transformation.At first, Barcelona appears to be where the story happens. Then the city begins to answer back.The Protocols move through cemeteries, gardens, hidden rooms, markets, streets, old structures and forgotten thresholds. Roots enter the city. Trees begin to walk. Traffic systems become botanical. Former cages … Continue reading Barcelona Is the Glyph
The Glyph That Does Something
An image can describe. A glyph can act.We are accustomed to asking an image what it represents. What does it depict? What does it symbolize? What does it remind us of? The Chimeric Glyph Script asks a different question: What does the image do?The plates in The Chimeric Protocols are not illustrations waiting for a … Continue reading The Glyph That Does Something
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and the Book of Split Ink (1)
Everyone who follows me, knows that I can become quiete eratic in my blogging when I get absorbed into the final phase of an ongoing project. So was it this time and finaly: the mouse birthed a mountain. The Chimeric Glyph System was brewing and coming to fruition over years on a subconscient level till, … Continue reading The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and the Book of Split Ink (1)
The Magical Reality of Being Water. Acrylic on canvas 40,6 x 40,6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas
Living as water means embracing the mystical universe, where planetary and stellar alignments create synchronous patterns. It's an acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of all things, and a willingness to flow with the ebb and flow of cosmic energy. By embodying the essence of water, we become more attuned to the rhythms of nature and the … Continue reading The Magical Reality of Being Water. Acrylic on canvas 40,6 x 40,6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas
Reflections. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
This canvas is a further elaboration upon an earlier work that is called The Zone. While The Zone was a rather formal investigation into color and line, this work gives a more impressionistic interpretation of the point where conscious and subconscious thinking processes confluence.It is a collection of free associations about the metaphoric, tectonic representation … Continue reading Reflections. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
The Zone
This post was supposed to be about a group exposition in Athens in which I'm participating. Unfortunately the pictures of the opening aren't forthcoming. Instead I've decided to post one of my recent works that I've introduced for the 2023 Biennial in London. This painting brings together a formal investigation into color and line, with … Continue reading The Zone
The Binary Perspective
The featured image is an installation of two canvasses that explores the binary nature of the reality by contrasting male to female, water to fire, vertical to horizontal, oval to rectangle, natural to artificial, and much more ...
The Philosopher’s Chicken.
In search for a contemporary philosopher´s egg, I came to wonder if one of those previous eggs didn’t hatch a philosopher’s chicken. That would make my task lots easier than having to go through the laborious process of producing a philosopher´s egg out of thin air (and whatever other substances). The philosopher’s egg is a … Continue reading The Philosopher’s Chicken.
Gravity Warrior
The gravitational pull of the earth and the challenge to resist it have long inspired artists. Like the Greek vases depicting Sisyphus's endless quest to push his boulder up a hill and the Whirlwind Lovers in Dante's Inferno, images that portray the defiance of gravity or submission to it permeate the artistic world. The concept … Continue reading Gravity Warrior
Art, Conceptualism, and the Universe.
Until very recently I hated conceptualism. Till I came across a piece written by Eric Wayne, an artist and art critic who wrote an article called “Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art”. It shifted my perception of conceptualism into a higher gear. In conceptualism, the idea or concept behind the work became more important than the … Continue reading Art, Conceptualism, and the Universe.
Chased by Time
According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naïve perception of its flow doesn't correspond to physical reality. … He posits that reality is just a complex network of events onto which we project sequences of past, present, and future. It is also possible to stop time. All you need to do … Continue reading Chased by Time
Assimilation.
This painting has the tension field between individuality and cultural assimilation for subject. While it´s a generally accepted fact that progress of civilization is a process of assimilation, one must conclude that inevitably there is going to exist a tension field between progress and multiculturalism.The best example that comes to mind to illustrate this comes … Continue reading Assimilation.
The Hatching of Chaos
The Hatching (acrylic on canvas 36' x 24') relates to the Alchemy of Chaos. It is an image that reflects the experience of the birth of new insights. It is a painting that will challenge you, move you, and ignite you.It is what you are searching for and what you’re running from, all in one. … Continue reading The Hatching of Chaos
Tidal Disruption
This painting (acrylic on canvas 46 x 23 cm) aimed to unite the boundless freedom of human imagination with the mathematical precision of the physical world by using the alchemic approach. There exist are several historic detectable strands of alchemy that seemed independent in their earlier stages, including Chinese, Indian, and Western alchemy. The aim … Continue reading Tidal Disruption