David Sater is a writer (mythographer), visual artist, experimental filmmaker, & aspiring alchemist
currently dividing his time between upstate new york & oaxaca mexico.
He is the chymical author of the forthcoming Hum, or, The Breathing Stone - an illuminated novel,
in the style (inflectedly) of the old alchemical emblem books, set in a sanatorium.
He is also working on a novella published in shards (risograph) based on an ancient persian magus :
The Invisible Well, or, Osthanes & the island of golden toxins
(set on an alchemical orphan ship, captained by a witch with her long beard - where she is raising a group of orphans (lapis exilis - reads the rosarium, ‘the philosophical stone is an orphan’) along with a blue crab Estragon who does some tutoring, a french teen with the head of a dog, & a medieval clown with bird talons for feet who sleeps under the table & is often grumpy.) they go on adventures related to the chinese alchemical philosophy of Neidan - several volumes, such as The Cinnabar Kid are for sale (reach out through Instagram or email)
a book of philosophical essays & alchemical pomes is available called The Artifex & the Snail, or the Archaeus of Water - via NEW press, on Lulu
his last two exhibitions were in mexico, El Caracol Filosofico at NN Galeria, & Almuerzo de la Sapo Lunar at La Caverna in oaxaca
He runs the imprint Polycephalos Press : polycephalospress.com
& the Imago reading series (which has vested interest in the magico-poetic)
D studied literature, art, ancient mythologies & experimental film at Bard College.
printmaking at the Royal Drawing School in london + Columbia university (intensive)
and did an alchemical apprenticeship with Robert Bartlett. send a sandwich down the well in a basket ?
