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Painting made as a side-effect of painting Ants (Arizona, 2018).
"The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king." – Johann Joachim Becher, "Physica subterranea" (1667).
"With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought: Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our powers, and leaves a blank behind." – Charles Churchill, Epistle to William Hogarth (July 1763), line 645.
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