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The bronze casting process that Curt Brill employs is called a "lost
wax bronze casting". This means that for every bronze sculpture that
is created, as the name implies, there first must be a wax version
of the sculpture. This ceramic shell forms a void or negative space
as the wax is melted out and bronze is poured in to replace the wax.
Since his original sculptures are usually created in clay, a mold of
the original is needed in order to produce the wax version. The
photos will trace the progression of the production of a mold from
an original scaled up version of a clay maquette, which has been
sculpted to a version slightly larger than life-sized. The first
photo shows the original maquette alongside the full scale version
of the sculpture. Step-1: Cutting the original into sizes ready for
bronze casting. Bronzes of this size cannot be poured in bronze in a
single pour. This means that the bronzes will be cast in sections to
be welded together after all the sections have been cast in bronze.
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