Ice and fire
CASTING (poem)
Bones found on a hillside, bronze cast in a furnace. The process a revelation:
CAST CAST
Silicone mould…wax. Cups, runners and risers (bronze in, air out)
Ceramic shell times 6…..wax burnt out….ammonia dries
Fire bonds ceramic shell…
Hot hot hot bronze into hot hot shell…
Knock off shell, cut off the pieces and CHASE. CHASE.
Patinate
with ferric nitrate
not French skates…..
A lot of little bones and a few flints…CAST CAST
Photograph and THROW THROW
THROW AT THE DRUM
CAST AND MAKE NOISE…
Record…..
CAST CAST
Silicone mould…wax. Cups, runners and risers (bronze in, air out)
Ceramic shell times 6…..wax burnt out….ammonia dries
Fire bonds ceramic shell…
Hot hot hot bronze into hot hot shell…
Knock off shell, cut off the pieces and CHASE. CHASE.
Patinate
with ferric nitrate
not French skates…..
A lot of little bones and a few flints…CAST CAST
Photograph and THROW THROW
THROW AT THE DRUM
CAST AND MAKE NOISE…
Record…..
CAST 2019/2020
CAST 2019/2020
Glacier 2020
Obsession 2014
A found root of marram grass is pierced with many many long pins