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Not all art is born form drying paint and pottery wheels. Some is born from a violent combination of fire and metal. Some art is made not from a few brush strokes, but hours of hard labor while surrounded by the threat of serious injury or death. Iron sculpting is this type of art.
This weekend, the Georgia Sculpting Society held an Invitational Iron Pour at the South Thomas Street Art Complex and invited the public to come and watch sculptors from around the area create raw pieces of metal art from hot molten iron. Below are some photos from the event.
Molten iron is poured from a ladle into a mold to create an iron sculpture.
Christian Bailey takes a break at the end of the Invitational Iron Pour.
George S. Morgan, Jr. is showered by sparks from the furnace called MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER as he uses oxygen to reheat iron that had cooled in the furnace.
A group of leather clad Iron Sculptors pour molten iron into a ladle from MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER. The smaller furnace of the pair, MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER can heat and hold 150 pounds of molten iron. MOTHER has a 300 pound capacity.
Lindsey Ethridge, left, a Georgia sculpture student, and Jessi Veverka, a sculpture student at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. take a break while the MOTHER furnace heats up some raw iron.
Josh Revord, a sculpture student at Ole Miss, carves a mold for a iron sculpture of a meditation labyrinth.
A group of visitors to the Thomas Street Art Complex look on as iron sculptors pour molten iron into small molds made from sand. The molds could be purchased by visitors for $15 who could then etch a personal design into it and take home a small iron piece.
Jim “Jimbo” Buonaccorsi, a sculpture professor and founder of the Invitational Iron Pour, walks by MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER, the smaller of a pair of furnaces used to melt iron ingots into molten metal. The larger of the pair of furnaces is called MOTHER and both were built by Buonaccorsi.
Christian Bailey guides in a forklift to pick up large molds.
Iron Sculpters pour molten iron into a mold created by Ole Miss sculpting student Josh Revord.
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