Becoming A Sculpture

Cassils pouring the last bronze mold.

Stills from Katie’s performance (hammering names of transgender people who have committed suicide or passed away from acts of violence), and an example of one of the finished ingots.

The museum tag of “Resilience of the 20%” in PafA!

At our last class, and as part of Katie and Taylor’s pour performance, the last name “Sarah Kench” was chiseled onto a bar of bronze and hidden at Green Lakes as tribute.

Cassils performing “Becoming an Image” at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on December 2, 2016. 

At some point after each pour each cast was coated in a ceramic silicate shell that had to be chiseled off. Each chunk of bronze had to be “cleaned” this way, the silicate chiseled off. Excess bronze sanded down with a grinder, and the airs and bronze feeding pathways cut off as well. There is not a lot of documentation of this because the class was so busy grinding and cleaning, these 14 hour days of pretty physical labor to the get the bronze pieces ready for welding.

Power-washing with Cassils is always fun.

The class interaction with the public sculptures in Philly

Some stills from Joe’s performance. Beautiful Woman.  

The finished sculpture in the museum

Class collectively walking down city street

Zoe and Taylor jumping for joy that they finally made it. (Spot the big paint bush in the background)

Zoe and Joe driving to the the museum

Mirra and Amanda Performance 

Alanne Stroy Second Performance