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The difficult decision to settle of alchemical transfer from one state
to another. This symbolism can be
in Boston with his wife Carol related to Stopforth’s testimony that
moving to Boston provided space for
was taken only after many of him to breathe because, “America is

his activist colleagues had been big enough to provide people with
the opportunities to live out their lives
arrested and his close friend David regardless of how they feel connected
to, or are affiliated to, the countries
Webster was assassinated on a that they were born in.” The hands
interlaced with the skull are playing
Saturday morning… an invisible flute, perhaps the oldest
and most widespread instrument in the
world, able to transform breath into
music. Its portability and ethereal sound
Look at Alchemist, made in 1992 (fig.1). is a reference to the ancient Egyptian make the flute an ideal medium for the
God Hapi, whose baboon head adorns musician as exile. The flute is associ-
Centered on the stippled surface is ated in many cultures with the voice of
a baboon skull interwoven with the the stopper on the canopic jar respon- the Gods; ancient Egyptians believed
outline of a pair of hands. The skull sible for the preservation of the lungs.
Hapi is the divine guardian of air, and that Isis spoke through its notes. In

Figure 1: Alchemist by Paul Stopforth (Photo Credit: Jay Block).

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