work in-progress

Gravity casting a low melt alloy of bismuth and tin into RTV silicone.





I have a laugh at myself, melting metal in a coffee can, an angle iron attached to it for the handle. Yet, while reading a book of interviews given by David Sylvester with american artists, I remarked at a comment Robert Rauschenberg made. He was talking about on the goat in one of is combines. It seems that some viewer sat on it during an exhibit and broke one of its legs. That in it self is noteworthy and makes my smile widen; yet, it was his statement after, saying that with his "at-home craftsmanship" he could not repair it properly (to avoid changing it's over all appearance) and had to send it to a taxidermist. That at-home craftsmanship is what struck me. There is a balance there that has always interested me.