{"id":34,"date":"2011-05-23T11:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2011-07-05T06:34:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:34:18","slug":"casting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some observations on casting:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There is a large amount of work that goes into making a mold. The mold generates a value of its own due to this investment. In a sense it is a work in its own right, aesthetically displaying a sculptural process that is rich in metaphor and suggestion.<\/li>\n<li>The wax assumes a proxy (facsimile) of the final object, yet it\u2019s soft and malleable character suggests a limited lifespan, a fragile intermediary, a sacrificial palimpsest. The burning of the wax is the sacrifice made on behalf of the idea.<\/li>\n<li>The amount of work and investment (suggesting the double meaning as a stage in the process) involved in order to produce one object eschews the presumption and history of making multiples with this casting. A kind of perversity on the function of labor is at play here; there is no equalizing distribution of time vs quantity i.e. the number reproduced distributes the labor\/time involved in making the mold.<\/li>\n<li>I do not think of this process as reproducing the original, but rather the original has had a fragment torn from it, a piece of meaning (text) extracted from it that is used to form (create) a new object that may bare some resemblance (iconically), but is intentionally and functionally very different.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/preparation_yield.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-34];player=img;\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/on-site-casting1.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-34];player=img;\" title=\"on site casting\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103 alignleft\" title=\"on site casting\" src=\"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/on-site-casting1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/on-site-casting1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/on-site-casting1-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/on-site-casting1.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100\" title=\"preparation_yield\" src=\"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/preparation_yield-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/preparation_yield-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/preparation_yield-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/asinlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/preparation_yield.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some observations on casting: There is a large amount of work that goes into making a mold. The mold generates a value of its own due to this investment. In a sense it is a work in its own right, aesthetically displaying a sculptural process that is rich in metaphor and suggestion. The wax assumes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/99"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}