Qigong

Pas de Deaux, Qigong
Pas Sol, Qigong…

“Qigong (/ˈtʃiːˈɡɒŋ/),[1][a] is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation[2] said to be useful for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial arts training.[3] With roots in Chinese medicinephilosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed by the Chinese and throughout Asia as a practice to cultivate and balance the mythical life-force qi.[4]

Qigong practice typically involves moving meditation, coordinating slow-flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm meditative state of mind. People practice qigong throughout China and worldwide for recreation, exercise, relaxation, preventive medicine, self-healing, alternative medicine, meditation, self-cultivation, and training for martial arts.[2]” Wikipedia

Pas de Deaux, Qigong

Medicine Shield, bronze and coppercasting

Medicine Shield, bronze and copper casting, OAH, 4 inches
Medicine Shield, bronze and copper casting

Medicine Shield, plaster, sand and delph clay mould for cast copper base, machine screw for mooring base to polished stone sub-base

Medicine Shield, figure mounted to copper and brass base set on polished granite stone
Medicine Shield Altar Shrine
Medicine Shield Altar Shrine
Medicine Shield, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Spirit

Pas de Deaux, bronze casting forward

Pas de Deaux, released from plaster investment, unworked

Pas de Deaux Upper Figure, initial burnish
Pas de Deaux paired in dance, bronze casting over clay/plaster pattern
Pas de Deaux, upper figure bronze casting, burnishing refinement, adding hair.
Pas de Deaux, upper figure, evolving…beginning to feel magic

Pas de Deaux, original clay/plaster lower figure, cast bronze upper figure nearing completion
Pas de Deaux, wax pattern lower figure
Pas de Deaux, wax pattern lower figure
Pas de Deaux, lower figure, investment, sisal plaster binder, wax DWV, sprue form in place

Pas de Deaux, lower figure in reinforced plaster (Densite, gypsum, sand, sisal
Pas de Deaux, lower figure(?) finished work
Pas de Deaux, ascending
Form for plaster mold for copper base for Pas de Deaux
Pas de Deaux, plaster mold curing for copper base