Serpent Vessel takes as its point of departure August Kekulé’s account of the dream-image that helped him conceive the ring structure of benzene: a serpent seizing its own tail. The work treats this moment not simply as a scientific anecdote, but as evidence that discovery can emerge through images, intuitions, and irrational forms of thought as much as through formal method. Its biomorphic structure draws on the figure of the ouroboros, bringing together the symbolic language of alchemy and the material history of chemistry. Rather than illustrating a single event, the sculpture stages a relation between scientific knowledge and the imaginative conditions that sometimes precede it. In doing so, Serpent Vessel proposes that revelation, pattern, and matter are not always cleanly separable.