This book was made at the intaglio studios at "Taller del Alquimista" in Valparaiso, on the coast of Chile. Four artists participated, Franciso Carroza, Jorge Martinez Garcia, Thorsten Dennerline, and Luis Martinez Salas.

The idea of the square book stems from Jorge Martinezs' interest in alchemy, who actually named his etching shop "Studio of the Alchemist" in reference to the processes of intaglio print making. Ideas within alchemy about how geometry is linked to the universe was the important starting point for how to organize the project. He writes about this in the prologue page. Four artists participated, each creating 4 square images. Each artist was also asked to work with text in at least two of his images. Four artists, four plates each with four equal sides. All this contained within a square binding. The number begins to reapeat itself and even the edition is 44.
(This book is completely in Spanish)

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