Name/Title
Cracked EarthEntry/Object ID
2025.328Description
Cracked Earth is a twenty-sided sphere made up of identical triangles. The source data and image came from a black-and-white photograph of cracked earth. This source data was stretched and altered over the surface of a sphere in the modeling program Blender, resulting in a landscape of fissures and mountains. Next, a duplicate layer opposite the surface layer was created. Both layers were split into twenty sections, and eleven of the pair sections were molded in resin sand and assembled as one mold with an external gating system, which was also built in resin sand. This project was molded and cast at Sloss Historic Furnaces in Birmingham, AL, during the National Conference on Cast Iron Art and Practices in 2019.Type of Sculpture
Free StandingArtwork Details
Medium
Steel, Cast IronSubject
earthMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Araan SchmidtRole
ArtistDate made
2022Place
* Untyped Place
Sloss Historic Furnaces, Birmingham, ALDimensions
Height
7 ftWidth
3 ftDepth
2 ftWeight
700 lb