Cast Glass Test #2

Glass and Bronze

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This piece is the second test I poured using the sand-mold cast-glass method. Like my previous test, I used the found object of the Black Rock Shooter Nendoroid as a positive form to cast from. However this form is much more abstract, made from pressing the form in bizzare patterns. 

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The importance of this test is that it was used to see how bronze would react to being fused with the glass. One can embed copper elements into a cast glass piece, and since my bronze was 96% copper, I wanted to see if it would react well with the glass. It was a success! The bronze turned a smoky black color, but a bit of sandblasting or metal-polishing will return it to a golder state. I am going to be staining the bronze with a patina: a chemical reaction that makes the bronze change colors. This will have to be done using the cold patina method, which is more time consuming than applying heat to the chemicals to stain them quicker. 

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The bronze I used was an experiment from when I was doing texture samples in a foundry, a metal-casting facility. So this piece is the lovechild of two tests from two different processes.