a meditation on the relationship of iron to blood and stone
By
Bruce Allan
2006
Bruce Allan
a meditation on the relationship of iron to blood and stone for PROPOSITIONS Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, 1997 and Balance 2000, Hanover, 2000
unfixed iron oxide pigment rubbed onto the surface of a wall, a similar quantity of pigment in a jar
haem, heme, n. Red compound containing iron and forming non protein part of haemoglobin. [f.Gk haima blood or f. HAEMOGLOBIN]
haematite, hem-, n. Ferric oxide as ore, [f.L f.Gk haematites (lithos) bloodlike stone]
Uwe Stelter
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