Magnum Opus 🔖

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel or Tolstoy's War and Peace .

It often involves a journey of intense effort, sacrifice, and overcoming doubt, similar to the four alchemical stages: Nigredo (despair), Albedo (light/purity), Citrinitas (education), and Rubedo (transformation). Magnum Opus

Elias began by producing average work. His early projects were serviceable but lacked soul. He felt despair, believing his hands incapable of expressing the visions in his mind. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel or Tolstoy's War and Peace