Without going into details, this photograph from Namba last night:
Contains elements of this old alchemical painting by Jehan Perreal, notably the blurred flower makes a wing on his right side, he wears a shroud on his lower half like the keeper of the secret or mystery tradition in the painting, and the stems of the Gerbera Daisies are reminisent to the element tree in the painting. And quite possibly at some stage in the show he wore his invisible crown:
Taschen has an interesting caption to this photo, which incidently is the cover to their book on Mysticism, it reads:
"Nature advises the "aimlessly wandering alchemist" to leave their narrow circle of mechanical laboratory chymistry: "you will never attain knowledge of anything if you come not to my forge." This forge is the tree that grows from the three roots Mineralia, Vegatativa and Sensitiva. Here, the earthly germ of all metals, animals and plants is separated by lengthy cooking into the four elements, and sublimated into the uppermost blossom of the elixer or the "vegetable gold."
Vegetable Gold is Morrissey and everything he writes. HE has written the blueprint for mother nature's alchemy, he has the keys to open the doors to have your work synthesize with Mother Nature. SHE gave them to him and rearranged them in his head. This is why he should wear a helmet at all times and only live in padded rooms and only have God drive his cars.
In reality I don't care about this crap. I'm just bored out of my mind and picked this up at Costco while having pizza with my mom.
Also there's some awesome Summer/Apollo/Sun alchemy linking Rank's version of Rusholme Ruffians to the Breeders Saints. I just want him to be safe and don't want to do grad school alchemy though.