After a week of being away from the sculpture, and going through my own form of post-partal depression, I made a quick stop at the foundry. As planned, the mold is well underway. The blue color you see is the mold material itself. It is still quite thin and will need more layers. The thin partitions that you see running down the front of the panel will separate the next stage of the process into three parts. These smaller parts are much more manageable than trying to work with the entire panel at once. You can see an additional extension on the top and ends of the panel. These simply create edges for the mothermold, a hard bodied form that helps the mold to maintain its shape.
The yellow, wavey shaped form is a separate project that the foundry is working on. It has nothing to do with the miner's monument.
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