Okay, dudes...did you know there is a Los Angeles Diorama Club?! Well knock me down with a feather, there sure as heck is! They make themed dioramas and everything. Who knew? The club is holding a meetup next Tuesday and there's still time to get in on the fun. The theme for this go-round is "Alchemy", all the details are below. Time to bust out the Tacky Glue and start craftin'!

LOS ANGELES DIORAMA CLUB - ASSIGNMENT 1

"Everything that happens once will never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time." The Alchemist

MEETING DATE & TIME: Tuesday, November 7th, 2006, 8PM

MEETING PLACE: MARGOT'S HOUSE, 1629 N. Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles CA 90027

THEME: ALCHEMY

Alchemy is generally known as the science of transforming base metals into gold. The word itself comes from the Arabic al-k?miya? or al-kh?miya, also cf. Persian kimia meaning "gold". However, on a deeper level the work of alchemy (cloaked in allegorical images) has also represented the transformation of the soul. Alchemy combines elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism and art to investigate the mechanisms of nature as philosophical and spiritual disciplines.

What better to ponder over Friday the 13th and Halloween, than something both scientific and spiritual, both mystical and medical, both mysterious and esoteric?...and that is ALCHEMY...

Some keywords (just to get you started): Glass, Iron, Circulating vessels, Pelicans, Double pelicans, Philosophers Egg, Casting cones, Receptacles, Funnels, Dyoptra, Combustion, Reverberation, Macrocosm, Microcosms, Transmutation, Hermeticism, Resolution of opposites (Male/female), Resolution of opposites (snake), Splendor solis, Crowning of Nature, Twelve Keys of Valentine, Lambspring, Donum Dei, Cabala mineralis, Petrus Bonus, The Four Humors, etc.

Please interpret the theme as freely as you want to, in fact the free-er the better. Then make a diorama and bring on the 7th to share with us.

RULES:

THE DIORAMA SIZE MUST FIT WITHIN A 1.5FT CUBE MORE OR LESS
THE DIORAMA CAN BE MADE USING ANY MATERIALS YOU WANT
THE DIORAMA DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ENCLOSED OR BOXED IN

IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE PLEASE SEND A R.S.V.P TO: margotATkeepcompanyDOTcom