![]() ![]() Making the Athenian owl was done to represent the history of silver, which was supposedly discovered in Greece and used commonly as Drachma, the form of currency in Ancient Greece. We chose to represent the history of the element by molding an Athenian owl out of clay and covering it in aluminum foil. When creating the piece of artwork that represents the chemical element silver, we decided that it should highly emphasize the history and discovery of the element. Silver, 47Īrtists: David Albert Sarda Keen and Arantxa Marin Limon The water pipes drawn as they used to be made out of lead which was later discovered to be toxic to humans. On the miner’s cart, there is the atomic number 82 and there are four miners surrounding the cart representing one of its oxidation states of +4. The image depicts miners mining lead and lead pipes. The tile was drawn in pencil to represent the element’s dull grey colour. Lead (Pb) is a chemical element with atomic number 82. The bordering designs are copper items and the entire title showcases the varying colours of copper (red, yellow, blue, green, etc.). The items in their hands are varying stages of copper oxidation. The middle vase shows art of people using copper weapons with the bowl on right shows art of the timeline and uses of copper (art, farming, weapon, architecture, tech). All the jewellery and head crowns are made of copper with all hieroglyphs spelling out descriptions of copper and/or the periodic table, such as metal, chem, Dmitri, shiny etc. The blue background symbolizes the blue copper(II) sulphate. ![]()
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