December 21, 2008
Click Click: University of Maryland Iron Pour
Earlier this month the University of Maryland art department hosted its annual iron pour, in which students, faculty, and guests made molds and pour iron to cast metal sculpture. The sculptors arrived a day early with molds, which they build into the ground, and radiators, which they hack up and melt down for the metal. The acrid smell lingers for days; the iron sculpture, much longers. [Note: This writer teaches a graduate fine art colloquium at the University of Maryland.]
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metal is cool. not so much death metal. but metal in general.
kudos.
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and yet more ugly, self-indulgent public 'art' is born....
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As opposed to more gorgeous, non-self-indulgent art? Like that giant iron cock ring and matching Prince Alber stud I paid these people for and have yet to receive? Doesn't being an alumnus count for anything anymore?
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I did one of these in Charleston once, and it was a lot of fun. And I took what I made home so it was ugly private art, thankyouverymuch.
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If some self-indulget art falls in the woods and nobody sees it, is it ugly?
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Ugly,pretty -- all we know is that it's heavy, Monkey. I would so rather do this vs. that "paint your own pottery" stuff is all I'm saying.
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Agreed. I'm totally down with a "Boil Your Own Iron-ey Shop," but good luck getting insurance. For the boiling iron, I mean. Don't think they have irony insurance, not since Mutual of Omaha stopped sponsoring Wild Kingdom and Marlin Perkins got torn apart by wild dogs.
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I think the pouring vessel is called a crucible, isn't it?
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All I can focus on is the enormous pig. Mmm...