Chemistry
The workplace of fire and warmth
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?Chemistry represents the hidden energies — the workplace of fire and warmth.?– Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch's allegory of the discipline of chemistry fuses laboratory and esoteric science.
A young man and woman are leaning over laboratory beakers with coloured contents. Smoke and flames arise from the flasks and become tiny fetuses: ?a moment pointing towards the future?, in Munch's own words.
Mystery, human nature and the genesis of life are underlying themes.