ADENINE
Sculpture | Alchemical Art

ADENINE
Earth’s atmosphere before the emergence of life

This piece situates the origin of life in a previous state to form, when matter was still unstable and energy was beginning to organise itself. The primordial atmosphere appears as an alchemical laboratory: a space of gestation where the elemental initiated its transformation.
Adenine is presented as a symbolic seed, a minimal unit that concentrates the potential of life. The heart, positioned as a centre, functions as a crystallisation point: a place of transmutation where matter, energy and rhythm converge. Before all forms, there is already a frequency, an emission, something that exists before entering into contact with any other system.
HISTORICAL
Result of compounds:
Glycine
Alanine
Sarcosine
Betalanine
N-methylalanine
Aspartic acid
Glutamic acid
Aminovaleric acid
Glycolic acid
Lactic acid
Alpha-hydroxybutyric acid
Succinic acid
Urea
N-methylurea
(Compounds that are products of life)
Amino acids can be formed from elemental gases through bombardment.






