Working with the Casts

After making more of the wax casts of the vertebrae, I decided to string them together in order to examine the movement of the spine. I really liked the idea of stringing the wax pieces together. I wanted to arrange them in the "S" shape of the spine. I needed to get some strong wire in order to do this. . .so . . . I bought some wire at the garden centre and but it had a plastic coating on it which I had to remove with knife. At first I wanted to  push the wire through the wax casts but this did not work as the wax started to break when I did this. Then after some thought I wrapped the wire around the casts. I wrapped wire around aprox 9 casts, then hung them between two pieces of bamboo in the studio. I wanted to recreate the "S" of the spine, as I said, however the casts were too heavy, which led to a dip in the piece. I'll have to get thinking so I can find a way of making the wire stronger without obstructing the simplicity of the work!