Hebdomad

Mounted pin-brooch, 2007 aterials: Carved and inlaid Chinese turquoise, 19th century glass taxidermy eye (re-carved), cat’s-eye chrysoberyl, 18ct yellow gold, carved and engraved jet, silver, 18ct white gold pin

height (without pin): 38.5mm width: 38.5mm ount: mixed media Signed and dated artist’s no: 422.MP-B.07 hidden alche y: 217-8

Here, the never-ending cycle of the week, a sequence which is echoed in ancient thought by correspondences with the seven then-known planets and their alchemically associated metals, is animated in its constant self-consumption by a writhing scaly Ouroboros carved in granular turquoise. At its still centre is its own unblinking eye.