Yesterday I presented the Chimeric Glyphic System at the London Arts-Based Research Centre conference at Oxford University under the title “From Fragment to Chimera: The Artist Book as an Alchemical System of Transformation”.The question behind the presentation is one that continues to guide my work: what if alchemy were not only something represented in art, … Continue reading The Laboratory Remains Open
From Artistic Language to Artistic Research
On 15 November I will present “Alchemy Beyond the Symbol: The Chimeric Glyphic System as a Language of Transformation” at a conference organised by the London Arts-Based Research Centre (LABRC) at St Anne's College, Oxford University. I will be participating online.The presentation grows out of The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation / The Book of Split … Continue reading From Artistic Language to Artistic Research
Can an Image Become a Language?
A circle is not automatically a word. A pathway is not automatically a sentence. But their relationships can be organised into a grammar.The Chimeric Glyphic System (CGS) is my attempt to investigate this possibility. It uses canonical glyphs, spatial position, orientation, repetition, enclosure, connection and movement to construct meaning through relationships rather than isolated signs.Traditional … Continue reading Can an Image Become a Language?
Barcelona: The Unwritten Final Plate
At first, Barcelona seems to be waiting outside the book.The Chimeric Protocols begin as symbolic structures, and The Book of Split Ink follows their gradual awakening into consciousness. But as the work develops, the city enters the experiment.Barcelona's Roman foundations, markets, cloisters, courtyards, shelters, forgotten hospitals and streets form an environment of intersecting times and … Continue reading Barcelona: The Unwritten Final Plate
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.
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.
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.
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
From Literary Particles to Visual Worlds: SLM and CGS
I have come to see the Standard Literary Model (SLM) and the Chimeric Glyphic System (CGS) as two stages of the same larger investigation into how meaning is constructed. The SLM began with a simple but ambitious question: what happens if I look at literary analysis through the conceptual lens of the Standard Model of … Continue reading From Literary Particles to Visual Worlds: SLM and CGS