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Pears of Titties.

A universe of ceramic cast-molded pears hand-dipped in house paint with colors that represent nipples.
A process that requires me to take the original fruit, make a plaster mold with it by a pouring technique, pour slip into the finished mold, and pouring it right back out. This allows the slip (super wet, smoothie-like clay) to make a layer on the interior of the two part mold. Setting a timer, it allows for the slip to get to a "leather- hard" stage, where it can then be removed from the mold and fixed up for the final drying stage. After, I fire it once at a very high tempurature in a kiln. The last step is just sanding, perfecting, and delicatly hand painting them. 
 
This process is repeated until i am happy with the amount of replications.
Pears of Titties.
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Pears of Titties.

ceramic, cast-molded installation work.

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