Tag: cast

This is how it always starts: heavier vertical wires taped to the form. Multiple layers of tape, because the wire does not want to stay put.

Then I go around the hips and attach a lighter-weight wire to each vertical wire. This part drives me crazy. Wires everywhere, trying to poke me in the eyes, making a little shivery sound as they brush against each other.

Here’s a close-up of one of the little wires wrapped around one of the bigger ones:

Fussy and barely manageable, like a newborn baby. It takes me a while to get into a groove.