Absolute Mad Lads - Molten Bronze - 4k

An Honor to one of the coolest sets of contemporary art castings in the last decade.

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Leif, Scott and Caleb: in this experimental 'lost foam', gigantic-sand-mold, formed-within-a-metal-casque, bronze alloy casting (copper or brass, i can't remember but it was most certainly not bronze; most absolutely copper or brass). A throwback to a file that was uploaded to my dropbox in 2018 ---

Just for a basic context: this is a copper alloy pour of over 1000+ LBS into a 'lost foam' or 'direct foam burnout' via a sand mold that is held together by a round steel casque (as seen by the steel rounds that are bolted together on the outside).

Leif, Scott and Caleb were pouring 800+ (if my memory serves me correct it was 800lbs but it may have been up to 1400lbs, scoured from a tilt furnace. The crucible looks gigantic so it was probably at least 1000 lbs) into a gigantic, cylindrical, sand mold, casque for a special project.

The sand cast was an extremely complex design that was developed for an NY artist; I do not want to give away too many details because this was a MASSIVE project that was financed for a unique purpose and for an specific goal and process; but this sand cast was a gigantic 18+ ft tall sand mold (there is a hole burrowed within the ground and this specific cylinder casque goes down another 10+ feet below the surface).

Hidden within this metal, round casque and sand mold there is an an entire Evergreen Tree from Idaho carefully packaged within the casque and an intricate grouping of sand mold parts that line up along the shape of the Evergreen Tree that were custom made to fit along each contour.

This full "tree" is encased within the sand -- and throughout that sand, the inconspicuous tree from Idaho; there are "runners" (the runners are low density foam that melt away and evaporate when the molten copper comes in contact with them, replacing all of the foam with bronze wherever it is placed to direct the metal to where you want it to be) and, hopefully, adding newly poured metal along the tree that is hidden within the sand molds and casque to be opened up later as a surprise to see the final product.

I don't want to name the artist or the project because this was an expensive project but it was a glimpse at an absurd bronze casting within the contemporary art world circa 2018 which was probably seen a year or two later in a gallery setting.