Month: March 2023

Spring! The vernal equinox…

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At exactly 1724 hours, here, where I sit before my fire, before my altar, Earth Wind, Fire, Water, Spirit, the plane of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is exactly normal to the axis of the Earths rotation, day and night are equal in time.

So simple, so difficult to conceptualize in the Mind’s Eye.

Starting the clay molding process, March 13, 2013

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Finished bronze, 10 inches plus granite base.
Begin…wire armature, lower figure.
First fired cast.
Second clay firing
Fired clay model, lower figure, set in separated delft clay mold
Delft mold relieved to create pour channel for molten bronze
Vent holes bored and channels scored for release of gasses during molten pour
First pour, lower figure, direct from mold, sprue still intact, right 3/4 profile
Torch, braze, peen, burnish
Pattern remake, right profile
Pattern remake, left profile
New pattern, finding the parting line in the delft clay mould.
Setting the pattern in the mould

Setting the pattern in the mould
Talc over pattern
Not possible to cast from a split mould.