Jesse writes:
"Rose Stone" was for the book Ardeth: The Made Vampire, which I illustrated a few years back. It's based around the idea of alchemical quintessence and is the center piece for another image, as the center of the labyrinth. This image is a mix of a few pencil-and-ink drawings blended together with Photoshop, and then printed,inked over, and detailed and re-Photoshopped to clean it up.

"Rose Stone" is from the gallery "Laws and Limitations," which is an exploration of many of my studies and dreams, as well as a way to express many of my theories and ideas on the matters of life, physical existence, and my own personal development. Many of the symbols in my work are a collection of Sanskrit, Hebrew, alchemical, and intuitive figures, as well as mathematical and biological structures and formulas. It's an ongoing body of work, which I hope to add to on a very regular basis as I progress skill-wise.

Jesse Lindsay is a traveling freelance artist, currently living in Dallas, OR, after hitchhiking around the States for about six years, stopping in various cities and selling art to tattoo shops, galleries, and anywhere else that worked at the time. Much of his work in the public sphere ranges from book illustrations and film projects, to collaborations with various musicians and galleries around the world, as well as a collected personal-works project to be released soon.

"I refer to my current work as a type of 'alchemical surrealism', for lack of a better term. Most of my work is derived from dreams and studies into alchemical ritual, human psychology, mathematics, biology, and various areas and aspects of the occult. To me everything is a method of expressing reality, in one way or another, in terms that we can understand, in the forms of energy and matter we take for granted in everyday life."