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Chris Collins and his
cousin, Will Collins, loaded up the sculpture in
Pennsylvania the end of October 2002 and drove to
Lander, Wyoming with the sculpture
model. Delivery was at the Eagle Bronze
Foundry where the team held their second meeting.
Chris’s visit after two and half days of
driving was a short four hours, just time to
unload and assemble the model. Chris, Will
and Jim Paulus, Eagle Bronze, sales
manager, are unloading the lead horse and rider
into a brand new warehouse built to house
monumental sculpture. All the sculpture sections were brought into the warehouse and unwrapped. Assembly began with the woman and last rider and progressed to the central rider and then to the lead rider. Excitement mounts as each piece is unwrapped and the assembly begins. This is the first time that Colleen Cutschall, designer, and the Eagle Bronze foundry team have seen the actual full scale model. Watching the scale leap from a two foot drawing into a 35’ three dimensional form was astounding. For Collins Studio, their phase in the creation of the sculpture is complete. On November 1, 2002, the Spirit Warriors team met in Lander, Wyoming where the Eagle Bronze foundry team takes on the next phase of the sculptural creation. Monte Paddleford, owner of Eagle Bronze, and his department heads meet with Chris and Colleen to discuss structural details and how they will be handled in the foundry. These photos are taken in the warehouse/artist residence of the Eagle Bronze Foundry and Gallery in Lander, Wyoming on November 1, 2002. Documentation of the process also begins in various formats. Colleen Cutschall is accompanied by photographer and website designer, Gisele Beaupre, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The National Park Service approved at the team’s first meeting in July 2002, the creation of a video documenting the entire sculptural process. The filmmaker/videographer from Paintbrush Studio began to document the process for the film on the Spirit Warriors sculpture. Before departing from Eagle Bronze, Colleen Cutschall takes time to carve her signature into the sculpture model of the woman. Over the winter months the model will be cut up and moulds made. After the moulds are made, the casting of sections will begin. There are seventeen processes at the foundry that the model will go through before completion in early spring 2003. Stay posted for updates on the foundry process and scenes of the delivery and installation of the sculpture. Back to Scenes 1 ~ Back to Scenes 2 ~ Moulds and Bronze Casting |
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