The Cabinet of Concretions, 2022
An artist book in the form of a miniature cabinet of curiosities. Inspired by working with the Poole Museum on their Exploring Collections course I chose to research a Concreted Hook that was recovered from a shipwreck. The Artist Book explores the history of the object and the process of concretion which occurs when certain metals, and occasionally glass and ceramics, become encased in a hard shell of sediment ( a concrete) when they oxidise in salt water.