Cast iron And Steel
7ft x 3ft x 2ft
2022
Cracked Earth is a twenty sided sphere made up of identical triangles. The source data and image came from a black and white photograph of cracked earth. This source data was stretched and altered over the surface of a sphere in the modeling program Blender, resulting in a landscape of fissures and mountains. Next, a duplicate layer the exact opposite of the surface layer was created. Both layers were then split into twenty sections and 11 of these “pair sections” were cut out of foam with a CNC router. Each “pair section” has a circular key/core print to register it to its corresponding side. All of the sections were then molded in resin sand and assembled as one mold with an external gating system, which was also built in resin sand. This project was molded and cast at Sloss Historic Furnaces in Birmingham, AL, during the National Conference on Cast Iron Art and Practices in 2019. Scroll further to see images and videos of the entire process.