4pm expresso break
I take mine ‘a l’americano’ which means that it is about 30ml, instead of 10, with a sugar. I down it quickly over a short chat with Carlo and Ste, standing by the Lavazza machine.
Today we were discussing National Health Service in UK and Italy (with a brief mention of US, and an american sculptor who didn’t want to go to first aid despite a gushing wound and cut tendon over fears of cost!)
Then I return to my stool and my small wax figures, the delicious taste of sugary rich coffee lingering in my mouth, and a slight head rush and supper alertness from the caffeine rush.
I’m putting together a Pyruvate molecule made out of small figures. The structure is CH3-CO-COOH – the Cs are men, the Os are women, and the Hs will be babies.
I’m developing a technique to make them directly out of wax (so ready for bronze casting), using the brown hard wax as an inner harder armature, covered with the softer modelling wax. It seems to be working ok and its easy to control and change. Although I only just started today so we will see what happens when I start putting them all together.
