Chroma by Derek Jarman

Author:Derek Jarman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

(William Blake, The Echoing Green)

The distant lawnmower scents the air with green.

Green is a colour which exists in narratives … it always returns. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Alchemical Colour

Consider the world’s diversity and worship it!

I stumbled into alchemy reading Jung’s Alchemical Studies early in the 1970s. I don’t know what made me pick it. Perhaps the fascinating illustrations of metals, kings and queens, dragons and serpents. I bought and read original texts, Dee’s Hieroglyph Monad and Angelic Conversation (I used the name for my film of Shakespeare sonnets); Cause, Unity and Principles by Giordano Bruno; and Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy, a copy of which I found on a market stall for £5, a first English edition from 1651 missing only a few pages. The missing pages are restored and the book rebound. The British Library wants it – it’s in far better condition than their copy.

Jung’s work informed the poetry that I wrote for John Dee in Jubilee, particularly the final speech. The signature of flowers:

I signed myself with rosemary, true alexipharmic against your enemies.

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