Toten
The process in this art work
resembles to the archeologist.
It is as if I dug up
the work from a recent past,
apocalyptic,
revisiting recent memories.
This is a series of assemblages
produced from found objects,
discarded.
They are daily objects,
food leftovers, packaging.
They are stacked in totens,
almost trophies,
prizing the resistance.
These memories,
transparent and fuzzy,
confuses itself in the real.
Lostwax Technique.
The objects, packaging and
discarded vegetables go through
the moulding process.
Once ready,
the moulds are charged with wax.
The hardened wax object is
covered with refractory plaster.
The wax is taken out by
water vapour.
The plaster moulds are then
charged with glass pieces.
They go to the furnace for 8 hours
in 880 degrees Celsius.
After a week of cooling down
the plaster is removed,
and the piece goes through processes of
cold working techniques
and sand bast.
Art work presented on the Republic Museum Online Exhibition, Brasilia, 2020.
