Bronzes

I have been part of an 8-member collaborative that focusses on visual art projects for approximately 20 years. We meet every 6 months on projects that involve parallel collaboration (performed together) and serial collaboration (performed one person at a time). [continued] One of our more recent projects was assigned the theme “containers”. After a few attempts to paint small paintings of fruit, in pastel, I had the idea to do small bronze castings of “Bundles, Bottles, Boxes, and Bags”. I modeled the 4 B’s in wax and had them cast in silicon bronze. I then designed a thick walnut frame and made 4 of them so that each of the B’s would have some place to nestle. The front of each B word frame was then sandblasted with the name of the appropriate container.