“Physica – Metals” by Alicia Bailey

2020
Mixed media artists book
6.125” x 4.25” x 4.25”

From a series of 9 artists’ book works, each focusing on one of the 9 sections in Hildegard von Bingen’s Physica, as translated from Latin to English by Priscilla Throop. 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. Included metals are brass, copper, iron, steel, tin, gold, silver, and lead.