Here is the latest addition to the Alchemy Notebook series of images in my Moleskineⁱ Pocket Classic Sketchbook. This Cipher Wheel is a companion piece to the earlier pages posted of the Cipher Table, and features movable disks. I constructed the page so that the two middle wheels of symbols turn to various positions to make a double layer shift cipher. I have yet to put this tag team of ciphering tools to work, but plan to use them in upcoming pages.

This image is done with the usual materials: Liquid acrylic inks, Prismacolor watercolor pencils, and gel ink pens. The page with the leaves painted on it has a circle cut through it to expose the cipher wheel from the following page. I have an additional circle of symbols surrounding the cipher wheel located on the back page which cannot be seen in these images, but adds another possible layer of enciphering to the function of the cipher wheel.

I am enjoying the paper engineering aspects of the recent pages I have done, and this cut-away aspect of the pages adds the element of concealment and framing of imagery from page spread to page spread. I will work on the surrounding pages next to take advantage of some of those possibilities.