CASTING WORK
These are all sculptural pieces done in Ashley H. Carlisle's sculpture class Cast Forms at the University of Wyoming c. fall 2015. The first forms are iron. They look like the kind of sculpture one would find outside of a building, like architectural pieces that one could sit on, however, their backsides reveal disturbing disembodied fingers growing on strings. I cast the fingers of my right hand and painted the plaster results in halloween-esque garish colors.
The iron forms were made out of clay, cast in wax from plaster molds, and finally turned into sand-mold negatives for the fall iron-pour. We also poured bronze. I made a diorama or scene out of my bronze casting: a mouse dying in a trap. I surrounded it with other molded forms made with wax, paper, and plaster (please notice the wax-cast cheez-its) I put it all on a found tray that I sand-blasted the finish off of. |
The Wall piece is five aluminum forms that are hollow half-spheres with welded-on backs. They have alien-like wooley tentacles exploring the space around them. |