Save the Last Tap for Me...

Sparks did fly at the Franconia Sculpture Park Community Collaboration Iron Pour. After a couple of weeks, the double cupolas, the smoke, and marathon of activity in the sun are still burned into my memory, if not my corneas. Tamsie saved her experimental paper & loose sand mold for last. A bunch of us watched from the top of John's sculpture, the point of view of this video.
The heat finally broke. A time like this always came when we lived in Austin, Texas (but it was in late September), when the high pressure and heat would finally let up. A little bit of summer is left, then Lauris heads off to his first day of kindergarten, the leaves start falling and all that familiar stuff. Viva la vida!

Double Trouble at Franconia

It's been a few weeks since our last post...what happened?
We had a great iron pour in Lanesboro. Pictures will follow. Karl is a force of nature. Then it was straight up to Franconia Sculpture Park, where for the past two weeks Tamsie has led the Community Collaboration Iron Workshop and Pour.
Long langorous days under the big Franconia sky, where the workshop artists designed and built their molds.
All the hubbub built up to today...
Something like 150 scratch molds people from the community could buy and work on, then have molded into iron.
The big honking furnace borrowed from Anurag shared the stage with a furnace and pour crew from U of M...double trouble!
Smoke, soot, fire and fury.
And turkey.
Cheers to everyone!