The last thing the caster did was to clean the pieces of any remaining clay, sand down the sharp edges where the fiberglass was sticking out, and build a giant 6'x6' crate. In the images below there are no longer the dark lines at the seems and the whole thing looks frosty and fresh.
In the image below you can notice that the caster cut a u-shape out of the wooden stand the sculpture is sitting on. He did this so that when the mold pieces were all bolted together he could crawl under the head and inside of it to add the layers of resin. I was against this idea, suggesting that he leave on of the pieces off to give himself more air while working with such toxic material, but working with the closed piece gave it the tightest alignment. It looks amazing and I can wait to receive it in Massachusetts.
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