pickin out the investment material..cutting, polishing and getting it together

The last two days I spent thinking about the group of figures and how they might be shown. My first plan was to make these bases from wood, but now that doesn't really work... Maybe I will take them to NJ and photograph them on the beach or the jetty rocks.. maybe place them in a stream like nymphs or in the woods, naiads... or in a garbage dump... like.. waste sentinels...
All I can see are the things that are wrong. They are naked in this sand blasted state. Like bisque ware in ceramics, they lack subtle shifts and depth ...

One of the students mixed up an azz load of slurry, so Sarah asked me to make something.. I used some of the wax pieces that were left from the February melt down and have two pieces in the works. One small torso and a head. I vented them more carefully. I ask the bronze to run along the horizontal and that makes for trouble and incomplete casts.

Melissa called yesterday to ask me for slides for the fall show at Washington Square and Gallery 10. Hopefully I will have a brochure by then.