Bread Virgins

Bread Virgins

Cast Aluminum & Bronze   2009-Present

The Bread Virgins are an ongoing sculpture series of figures originally cast from bread dough. Loosely referencing a common thread in origin myths where humans are sculpted from a piece of bread dough or mud, these molded bronze or aluminum Bread Virgins begin with humble roots but get translated through the iterative process of casting and hand shaping- a process very similar to how the interpretation of icons are adapted and co-opted as they travel through time and cultures.

The figures are created through a series of casting:

1. A mold is taken from a plastic thrift store religious figurine.

2. Bread dough is pressed into the mold, removed, hand shaped, and baked.

3. The dough figurines are cast a final time into solid aluminum through resin sand casting with molten aluminum or bronze.