The Alchemy of Love

by Elizabeth Engstrom and Alan M. Clark

A collaborative volume of eight pieces of fiction and eight paintings, Engstrom literates four of Clark's disturbing and surreal works of art, while Clark illustrates four of Engstrom's dark and haunting stories.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966627229
• ISBN13: 9780966627220
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: TripleTree Publishing
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Definitely Not Kansas

"The Alchemy of Love" by Elizabeth Engstrom and Alan M. Clark is a fascinating collection of stories accompanied by intriguing art work that together, you can never quite stop thinking about. They blend fantasy and reality is such a way that you are not sure when and where imagination takes over from rational thinking. In this book the written word intertwines with the visual picture so intimately you feel you know one by examining the other. It caused me to revisit and reexamine my definition of love on every level. It is more than an easy joy ride of a read with interesting illustrations. Although it is that, it is also like visiting a work of art that allows you to be swallowed up whole and participate in its essence. And what a trip it is. Definitely not Kansas. Not unless you consider that the wicked witch of the west is within each of us to some degree. And perhaps she is. And perhaps our perception of love and hate, hope and despair, are never further apart than our minds perception of what power these emotions hold over us. Each story and work of art suggests exactly that. I have added depth to my reality of what love is - might be - can do - and all because of these two artists who weave their tales much like a spider spins its web. These stories and works of art are interesting, intricate in design, and sometimes even deadly. In several of them I am left feeling like the fly who is caught, sucked in, left stunned. I like that feeling. It isn't one you are likely to forget. "The Alchemy of Love" isn't a book you are likely to forget either. It will change and transform you as only truly great artistry can.