For those wishing to learn more, certain details about bronze casting and assembling the cast pieces of a sculpture can be found in the video clip "Templier" - a monumental sculpture I made a year or two ago here near Paris. Sorry - the documentary adresses a french audience, but the images speak for themselves.
The men who work in this foundry can still cast bronze as it was once done...in a mixture of clay and horse-dung! They "know" their jobs - plus the history behind them, and I'm proud to have them work on my pieces if this means quality. You're so right ... some sounds always remain a constant...I'm glad you liked it.
I could see that your foundry guys were immensely knowledgeable. I've never come in contact with people that knowledgeable in my experience with foundries. It was a window into the past that I've never seen.
I sometimes wonder what the sounds and sights would have been like in a 3,000 year old foundry. I held a sword that was produced over 3,500 years ago. I tried to visualize how they produced it. Foundry work is still a magical experience. The pouring of bronze, unworldly.
My pleasure...There's a wish to share with would-be sculptors at the basis..but also an attempt to explain to the novice why a bronze costs "so much".
For those wishing to learn more, certain details about bronze casting and assembling the cast pieces of a sculpture can be found in the video clip "Templier" - a monumental sculpture I made a year or two ago here near Paris. Sorry - the documentary adresses a french audience, but the images speak for themselves.
sisypha 2 years ago
Sounds are the same though...
clayguy1 2 years ago
The men who work in this foundry can still cast bronze as it was once done...in a mixture of clay and horse-dung! They "know" their jobs - plus the history behind them, and I'm proud to have them work on my pieces if this means quality. You're so right ... some sounds always remain a constant...I'm glad you liked it.
sisypha 2 years ago
I could see that your foundry guys were immensely knowledgeable. I've never come in contact with people that knowledgeable in my experience with foundries. It was a window into the past that I've never seen.
I sometimes wonder what the sounds and sights would have been like in a 3,000 year old foundry. I held a sword that was produced over 3,500 years ago. I tried to visualize how they produced it. Foundry work is still a magical experience. The pouring of bronze, unworldly.
clayguy1 2 years ago
Method so different than how I get mine into bronze. Fasinating
clayguy1 2 years ago
Glad to have been instructive - or at the least entertaining.
sisypha 2 years ago
lol, true, good work
rockbeat009 2 years ago
thank you
jkwjd234 2 years ago
My pleasure...There's a wish to share with would-be sculptors at the basis..but also an attempt to explain to the novice why a bronze costs "so much".
sisypha 2 years ago