Alchemical Imagination: Creativity as Catalyst for Radical Transformation by Eliza Swann

Eliza Swann brings alchemical thought into conversation with contemporary art and the creative process. The Alchemical Imagination traces connections across historical alchemy, psychology, literature and visual practice, asking how ideas of transformation can become material for making art.

Part workbook and part historical exploration, it offers exercises and techniques developed from Swann's interdisciplinary teaching. A foreword by art historian Susan L. Aberth introduces this approach to alchemy as a creative and spiritual language, rather than a promise of literal transmutation or scientifically established healing.