Lost Wax Casting

Personal Project | 2013

Three brass paperweight sculptures created using the technique of lost wax casting. The original pieces were carved out of wax, cast in plaster (in a vacuum to remove air bubbles), and the molds were then heated to melt the wax out. The volume of the sculpture was calculated, and the proper amount of brass was melted down and poured into the plaster, using a vacuum to pull the molten metal through the entire mold. These three pieces were created in one week.