Oh, and today I watched my first bronze pour. Before christmas I spent a week in the 3d studio at uni making molds for bronze casting. I think the outcome is likely to be pretty rudimentary and crude but I am beginning to learn the process. The objects are a rubber thing I found on the street which people tell me is something to do with the exhaust off a car, and a bowl made from home-made geranium leaf paper. The wax and paper burns out when the mould is fired in the kiln, this leaves a space for the bronze to be poured into. The things that look like legs are called risers, they allow any trapped air to escape.