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Re: Allah Ashur with loins of bronze
Posted by beezlbub (Guest) - Wednesday, November 30 2005, 20:57:22 (CET)
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Kris K. wrote:
>Farid,
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>I heard through the grapevine (Jeff) that the Allah Ashur will breathe life soon, with loins of bronze. What will the price be? Will it be as big as the one I had the honor of seeing in Mexico?
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>I want one. I want one. I want one.
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>Ya see Farid, I know this one mechanic that works at Dodge and he agree to weld it to another bronze sculpture I bought at a yard sale.

...funny you should ask....after over a year and three false starts I finally managed to finish what I think is my best piece ever and the best one to end my run as a crook trying to profit off my Heritage.

...This very week the foundry is ready to cast two in bronze. I've never seen the piece entirely assembled, that's because the aura presented a real challenge...not just to make...because it's so damn thin and delicate...but because I have Ashur sort of suspended in it...a very tricky thing to assemble when it was all in plaster. I hope all the pieces fit when they're all in bronze...the aura is being cast in three sections to be welded together AND on Ashur when all is in bronze...to show you the degree of difficulty I didn't resort to the usual thing where the bow is concerned....that is: to fabricate it out of bronze rod and bend it to shape..instead I carved a lovely re-curve bow out of a sliver of plaster that tapers and bends and expands in really pretty ways...no cutting corners anywhere.

The first two I tried had Ashur standing on the granite base...but in the final version his foot and skirt don't rest on the base...it's a much more like he's suspended in the air...you barely notice that the aura is holding him up and IT is attached to the base. I can't make the piece levitate in reality, but this is the next best thing.

And oh yes...I show a LEG! Shoot me...I know there isn't any skin showing on the original drawings...but i LIKE the way opur sculptors showed muscle and so I'm altering the design slightly...but it isn't anything that doesn't appear on other sculptures from the time...in other words: just because archaeologists haven't found it, does NOT mean it never existed. If I'm an Assyrian, I can make Assyrian sculpture...thank you.

Got a lot of stories to tell about its creation...the process and trials and tribulations...how the plaster sculpture travelled twice by airplane and once on a bumpy 2500 trip across Mexico in my Bronco..of damage on top of damage that had to be fixed and re-fixed and so on.

But I'll wait till it's finished in bronze and I can see the WHOLE piece finally...then the rest of you can see and I can brag.



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