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

From John Brown’s Body, Stephen Vincent Benet

“I am too old to try the peddler’s tricks, Too wise, too foolish, too long strayed in the wood, The custom of the world is not my custom…

It was such years ago. She must have changed. I know that I have changed.
We find such things And lose them, and must live in spite of it.
Only a fool goes looking for the wind That blew across his heartstrings yesterday, Or breaks his hands in the obscure attempt To dig the knotted roots of Time apart, Hoping to resurrect the golden mask
Of the lost year inviolate from the ground.
Only a fool drives horses in the sky.”

From John Brown’s Body, Book Seven, Stephen Vincent Benet

“It was such years ago. She must have changed. I know that I have changed.

We find such things and lose them, and must live in spite of it.

Only a fool goes looking for the wind that blew across his heartstrings yesterday,

Or breaks his hands in the obscure attempt to dig the knotted roots of time apart,

Hoping to resurrect the golden mask of the lost year inviolate from the ground.

Only a fool drives horses in the sky.”