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…

From a very special time…

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.

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