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The Great Work or Magnum Opus as it is known in alchemy, breaks down the transmutation of base material into gold (in this case) into a four step process: 1 - Nigredo, 2 - Albedo, 3 - Citrinitas, and 4 - Rubedo. This pre-literate attempt at systematization inspired an abstraction for each of the world’s continents in this series of electronic art music.
Expanding on both the avian symbology found in these treatises as well as Jungian psychology, the birds of a feather (BoF) meeting style is the acronym is used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to denote initial meetings of members interested in a particular issue and can also allude to the “old boys network” found in the highest ranks of capitalism and politics.
– Anthony Stephenson
