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
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.
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.
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 origins of the Chimeric Glyph System: the Barcelona Five.
This post is dedicated to the five Barcelonese that were especially relevant to the CGS project : Evru / Zush , Lluís Permanyer , Claudi Alsina, Colita, and Jorge Wagensberg . Together, they represent five different ways of understanding Barcelona: as an invented symbolic territory, a historical memory, a geometric structure, a photographed social body, … Continue reading The origins of the Chimeric Glyph System: the Barcelona Five.
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)