Artwork: 2011.13.1
Alchemical Form
This totem-like piece is a material representation of the Axiom of Maria, which is a precept in alchemy: "One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth." Carl Jung used this axiom as a metaphor for the process of individuation, from undifferentiated unconsciousness to individual consciousness.
21.75 x 5.75 x 5.75 inches (55.2 x 14.6 x 14.6 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer
M.C. Richards, Alchemical Form, 1961. Stoneware. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Estate of Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer.
M.C. Richards, Centering: Life + Art—100 Years. (Asheville, NC: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2016), 62.