As a professional artist, I wanted to meet the artist of this
monumental project. My son and I had been 3D printing people, molding
the plastic figures and casting them in lead free pewter. It was a great
learning opportunity. The pose is of me melting pure silver on a pine
log to pour into a bundle of pine needles to make a pine needle casting.
As a Silversmith and teacher, that has taught Silversmithing in all 50
states for 50 years, pine needle casting is a process that I thought of,
“invented”, and have been using for 40 years.
