Artwork Description:
This sculpture was poured at Arizona Bronze, a Fine Art Foundry in Tempe, Arizona in 1984. From the series "S. I. N. T. G.", this autobiographical mixed-media bronze was shown by invitation in several university exhibitions. Silica bronze cast via lost wax-ceramic shell method with ferric nitrate patina and pigment; plate aluminum with pastel/acrylic; cherry base with soil in glass/rubber tube, sisal twine, enameled pine, bronze fasteners.