The contrast between a wax model and the same piece after it has been reborn in metal is always remarkable. Some of the qualities us in the wax which seduced us as maker are forever lost except in memory: the soft luminous quality wax has under lights, its delicateness and minuscule weight.
These qualities are replaced by the more robust qualities of the metal. The weight increases by at least a factor of 10. It becomes durable and hard, reflecting the light back at its source and away from its self rather than letting light permeate its form.
The preciousness of the ephemeral is replaced by the value in the enduring.
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