The Alchemy of Paradise

The Alchemy of Paradise is set in contemporary England, with the glittering city of Venice at its center, and follows her attempt to preserve what would otherwise disappear, by forming a group that makes survival possible. When the system cannot find meaning, she turns to alchemy, where matter becomes metaphor, and loss becomes transformation.An intellectual novel told through poetic essays and profound meditations, Alchemy of Paradise explores the tension between collection and transformation, order and chaos. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin's collections, and in dialogue with writers such as W. Gee. Sebald, Patti Smith, and Leanne Shapton, the novel contemplates the ways in which art and imagination allow us to draw personal maps across worlds of loss that are both worldly and individual.Paradise Alchemy refuses to give in to despair, presenting the curation process itself as an ongoing, restless exercise of creativity and renewal.