Hannah V. Shoemaker
The Thirteenth Child | Santa Fe Opera | design by Alexander Dodge | 2019
Six rubber axes cast onto carved wooden handles. Two part Vytaflex mold taken of a custom wooden axe head (carved by Adam Hooper), six rigid Reoflex casts made using silica microsphere powder to decrease cost and weight. Reoflex initially tinted red as a design choice, but then dyed black and painted with grey and silver powder tinted Reoflex to change the final color to look like steel. Six axes completed over a week and a half.