About The Casual Alchemist

Daniel Mack (b.1947) is an American artist working with natural and found objects, 

in the traditions of Alchemy and Surrealism. He explores the consequences of Ordering 

and Disordering, Variation and Violation. His Muse for all this is Hermes, The Trickster, 

"The One who shakes the Snowglobe.” There are several series of objects:

The Anima series, a collection of carved figures and assemblage to honor emerging, 

changing qualities of human life. They are our crones, elders, caretakers, hermits, misfits, 

and shamans. They start from driftwood bark collected from the Hudson River and take 

on form, feature, color, memory and bits of nature and culture. When put together in 

twos, threes, and fours, they tell stories about inner lives, families, and friends. 

Stone Totems, bits of brick, and beach stones, shaped as needed.

Cord Cutters  pointy, edgy things to help pare, prune and sever toxic relationships. 

Imaginal Giftssmall box of odd, useless, yet fetching, objects.

Altar Kits  more tool-like objects for inviting and adjusting liminal energies. 

He is a writer: seven books, an ongoing column for a regional magazine, and his opus, 

The Casual Alchemist,forever in process, and freely available.

Mack is a founding member of the Seligmann Center of Surrealism in Sugar Loaf, NY. 

He lives and works in Warwick, NY. danielmack.com thecasualalchemist.com