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]