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CJ Munn
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Started On : 17-Sep-2006 at 07:30:04 PM, #Views : 6221
Topic Subject : Re: Bread Casting |
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Hiya, pic of the mould attached (the model still in it at the time).
I guess we used about 8 ply - it was much thicker than for a normal
mould anyway otherwise the force of the bread rising made it distort.
The edges had to be reinforced too but I'd do that anyway for
plaster. The dough didn't and couldn't swell too much because the
oven was only just deep enough to get the figure into without losing
the nose or something. The bakers ran many tests with the test moulds
we made, to get the proportions as exact as possible to limit the
amount the dough rose. It wasn't sliced at the back at all, which is
why in some parts you can see the bread has spread a little outside
of the human form, but I kinda like that effect.
It was a great fun experiment anyway. Am definitely gonna attempt
some more.
x
On 18 Sep 2006, at 00:00, aliforum@lifecasting.org wrote:
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> Hello CJ Munn
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> Post Date : Sunday 17th of September 2006 07:00:03 PM
> Posted by : "Dan Spector" archicast@earthlink.net
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> Re: Bread Casting:--
> CJ-
> I'm just surprised plaster bandage survived oven baking. How thick
> was the
> mold? How much did the dough swell (rise) ? Did the baker have to
> slice it
> flat?
> Lost all my old emails a couple of months ago.. at least i'd
> transferred
> pics I like to other files.
> Dan
>
>> From: aliforum@lifecasting.org
>> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:10:22 -0400
>> To: archicast@earthlink.net
>> Subject: Bread Casting( Message No. 1153)
>>
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>> Hello Dan Spector
>
>>
>>
>> Post Date : Sunday 17th of September 2006 11:10:19 AM
>> Posted by : "CJ Munn" cj@rockabelly.co.uk
>>
>> Bread Casting:--
>> Hi, This weekend was the Thames Festival in London, and included
>> an art event
>> called 'Eat Me' by an artist called Sharon Baker. For this piece
>> Andre
>> Masters and myself cast Sharon's full body in a number of poses
>> using just
>> plaster bandage. The moulds were then filled with bread dough and
>> baked in the
>> biggest bread ovens in Britain. The resulting human-loaves were
>> displayed this
>> weekend at the festival and after a discussion about the pieces
>> and lengthy
>> question/answer sessions, the audience was invited to cut, saw
>> and rip apart
>> the bodies and then eat them with butter.
>>
>> It was a very fun art show to be a part of. The audience got to
>> choose how the
>> first cut was made (sawing off of the head, which I found too real
>> and
>> disturbing for comfort). Some people could not bring themselves to
>> eat the
>> bread, as they could not switch off from the idea it was a human
>> body and
>> therefore cannibalistic. Some people made religious comparisons
>> but Sharon is
>> an athiest, so to her it was more about engaging with an audience
>> who would
>> eat her and poop her out into different parts of the world to
>> become one with
>> the natural world.
>>
>> It was a very tiring job, doing 3 full body casts (2 of them were
>> in 6 parts
>> due to trying to fit them into the oven) in one day with just the
>> two of us.
>> But hugely rewarding, and very interesting to be a part of
>> something so
>> different that engaged a large audience so well. Within minutes of
>> the
>> dissection, there was nothing but crumbs left. The bread was
>> surprisingly
>> delicious.
>>
>> I thought I'd mention it here because I thought people would be
>> surprised at
>> the kind of detail you could get from such a strange casting
>> material. If you
>> are making the bread to eat you have to use an edible release on
>> the inside of
>> the mould of course, which means you lose detail but if you just
>> want to make
>> the bread for fun and not to eat then I recommend avoiding release
>> oils as you
>> get much better detail.
>>
>> I'm going to try a bread head for Halloween, and maybe a limb or two.
>>
>> Just a quick aside note to apologise to those in the group I owe
>> emails/invoices to. My hard disk died losing me my last 3 years
>> work/contacts/emails but through a very lengthy and annoyingly
>> expensive
>> computer forensics process I've managed to recover most of it, and
>> am just
>> catching up bit by bit with things on my 'todo' list, so really
>> sorry if you
>> thought I was ignoring you. It's all been quite hectic but I am
>> gradually
>> getting back to normal and should be in touch real soon.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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