Before the flowers are cut back for the season and we all start to carve pumpkins, there is another annual tradition- pouring iron. Artist and friend, Jerry Simpson, has be talking to me for years about going to one of our fellow artist's iron pours. Nicolas and I had evening free so we decided to trek out to the Curtis Art Center to the baseball out back to create tiles to have iron poured into by the students of the University of Colorado.
A simple synopsis, the sculpture students need to do an X amount of pours to pass the course. So with funding & $10 per bonded sand mold, the public can come and grab a nail to create a low-relief iron cast, watch the students work the cupolas, do a little performance art than pour the iron into the casts.
Words won't do justice to the experience. So here are pictures.
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| Nicolas with his finished tile. |
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| We came without any set design, so I went Picasso with my cast. |
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| They coat the casts with a liquid graphite then torch them. The poor young lady had just accidentally lit her hair on fire. |
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| Students working the cupola..I wish you could see the teacher with Loki horned blast mask. |
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| Students transfer some iron to a boom. |
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| The performance or spinning iron! |
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| The students pour the casts. |
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| My finish piece on display for our Spook-i-tea. It still needs to shave off the edges. |
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| Nicolas's tile came out so AWESOME! |
