Physica - Metals

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    © 2020
  • Dimensions (in inches): 6.125 x 4.5 x 4.5
  • Materials:book board, rayon, book cloth, mica, paper, digital ink, acrylic, brass, copper, iron, steel, tin, gold, silver, lead
  • Collection of: artists collection (available)

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Metals is a four walled pyramid structure; each wall of the structure has a metal sample inset into the board on both the inside and the outside, with text accompanying. Both the metals and text are overlaid with mica.

Physica is a series of 9 artists' book works, each focusing on one of the 9 sections in Hildegard von Bingen's Physica, written in the 12th Century, as translated from Latin to English by by Priscilla Throop.

Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing, translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. This first English translation was published during the 900th anniversary of Hildegard's birth.