Shazam…and so it begins.

The conundrum, do I vote for those who would disarm me, or those who would hunt me down with dogs?

A place among all creatures, all things,

Tenure, sojourn, a responsibility,

Each to each, all to each, each to all,

Unspecified adulation, reverence, primal, primitive…

Pagan, else is artifice and offense.

To all, to each,

Who do I think I am, you are, whence came and born on a history,

Know it or not, and belief inherited, know it or not…

Carrying it to our tomorrows, burdened by injustice,

Believe it or not…

Bluebirds’ song, the great water at Frogmore, the tide rising and falling,

My yesterdays, your yesterdays, my place in time, our place and time,

Your Time…

Children playing and singing,

Backward Christian soldiers.

Turn the tide, turn the tale.

I don’t know what’s going on, except too much is wrong.

I don’t know what’s going on, talking heads in confusion.

I don’t know what’s going on except the way is wrong,

Clear enough how we got here and who’s icing the cake.

Turn the tide, turn the tale.

No way to know the truth when everything is built on lies.

Turn the up side down,

Step out of the line, turn the tide, turn the tale,

Tell the children.

Shawnee,

May 9, 2013

The oratorio, keyboard,harmonica, spoken word, Shawnee,

Guitar, Victor Martin Granquist,

Percussion, Onayemi Olalekan,

Guitar, Seraphim Arkis,

Irene Goodnight, Vocal and mime,

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AkU6tMK-tNppgf0zEl5QCkeTUBCSnQ

Grant me the strength…Grant me the courage… Grant me the wisdom…

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Starting over, new clay pattern, 4/5/23…Pas de deux

Difficulty at the beginning

Emerging…..

Emerging…

Emerging, reaching…

Out of the frying pan, soon to the fire…

Pas de Deux, four brushed on coats of latex mold.

Pas de Deux, the lower figure, ten coats of brushed on latex rubber mold curing…

Pas de Deux, the upper figure, fired clay pattern…

Pas de Deaux…here’s how

Pas de Deaux, fired clay pattern, bottom figure removed from latex rubber mold. Fired clay pattern, upper figure ready for applying latex rubber mold.

The fired clay pattern, lower figure, destroyed in extracting from latex rubber mold. The resulting copper casting will be “one of a kind”. The latex rubber mold pieced back together with five more brushed on coats of liquid latex.

Pas de Deaux, fired clay pattern extracted from latex rubber mold

Pas de Deaux, wax pattern just out of the latex rubber mold, right. Failed attempt…

Pas de Deaux, fusing the latex rubber mold back together after extracting the wax pattern.

Pas de Deaux, new fired clay model, upper figure…

Pas de Deaux, fusing the latex rubber mold back together after extracting the fired clay model.

Pas de Deaux, lower figure attitude for melted wax insertion, second try.

Pas de Deaux, removing the upper figure fired clay model from latex rubber mold.

Pas de Deaux, set up to inject melted wax into lower figure rubber mold

Pas deDeaux, wax to the latex rubber mould.

Pas de Deaux, wax pattern released from latex rubber mould

Pas de Deaux, from fired clay pattern, to latex rubber mould, to wax pattern

Pas de Deaux, wax pattern set in investment wax outlets for burn out escape

Pas de Deaux, wax patter enclosed in investment, sprue mould fabricated

Various stages…

Pas de Deaux, lower figure, successful wax injection

Pas de Deaux lower figure wax pattern encased in plaster investment . Showing sprue.

Pas de Deaux, Success! Acceptable wax patterns…

Pas de Deaux, lower figure set in base plaster investment…

Pas de Deaux, Lower Figure, sprue bonded to wax pattern

Metamorphosis, bronze pour not as intended.

Pas de Deaux, another try, melted wax in latex rubber mould…

Pas de Deaux, unworked casting straight from plaster investment…