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My father took me round the Government workshops in Cairo when I was a small child. Situated in the old Kasr el Nil barracks they included machine shops, woodworkers shops, instrument makers and a brass foundry for casting scientific, agricultural and hydrological instruments. I knew that being in the foundry on a casting day was a great privilege. The darkness, the blackened walls and black sand covering the floor, all added to a sense drama that reached its climax when the lid of the roaring furnace was removed and the metal judged hot enough to pour. I was entranced by the brilliant golden colour of the liquid copper alloy as it flowed from the crucible into the black mouths of the sand-moulds. I was hooked; the extraordinary, almost Wagnerian, drama of the casting process; the transmutation of a form made in one material into another, has remained with me all my life.

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Bronze
Edition of 6
58 cm wide
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Painted Wood
Unique
58 cm wide