Plaster Casting @ Seal Beach Pier

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Plaster Casting @ Seal Beach Pier

Glenn Zucman 15 February 2018, 12:17 15 February 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment

We had an optional Plaster Casting meetup at the Seal Beach Pier between 3 & 6pm on February 14th, Valentine’s Day, 2018. Here are a few snaps of the activities:

student digging a hole in the sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Digging a hole

student working with sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Preparing a mold

students on the beach at the Seal Beach Pier discussing their plaster casting projects — Coordinating with classmates

students helping each other make sand molds of their hands — Packing wet sand around a classmate’s hand

student mixing plaster and water in a bucket — Mixing plaster

students mixing plaster and water in a bucket — … still mixing plaster…

Student running toward the ocean with a container raised high in the air — We need more water!

Student at the shoreline trying to dodge an incoming wave — I got wet!

Wide shot of many students on the beach at the Seal Beach Pier working on plaster casting projects — Everybody’s busy!

student carrying plastic folding chairs to the beach — I brought chairs!

student carrying a box of Krispy Kreme donuts to the beach — I brought donuts! Happy Valentine’s Day!

student offering another student a donut from a box — Mmm… donuts!

student posing for the camera — Posing!

student doing cartwheels on the sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Doing acrobatic tricks while waiting for plaster to set

students sitting on the sand at Seal Beach — chillaxin’

a heart drawn in the sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Happy Valentine’s Day!

students standing on the beach — FaceTime

a student knocking another student over at the beach — Wrestling

students digging plaster castings out of the sand at the Seal Beach Pier in Seal Beach, California — OK, it’s been 30 minutes… let’s excavate our castings!

students carving sand away from their casting — Removing sand from around the plaster casting

students examining a half-excavated plaster casting — Did we break it???

Digging a plaster casting of a hand out of the sand at Seal Beach

student cleaning a plaster casting at Seal Beach — Cleaning loose sand off a plaster casting of a hand (yay, it worked!)

student holding her hand up against a plaster casting of her hand to compare size and detail — Comparing my real hand to my plaster hand

student holding a large boulder-shaped piece of plaster up in the air — I made a rock!

student holding a plaster casting of his hand and photographing it with his cell phone — Photographing my work

students taking a selfie on the beach — Selfie time!

students taking a selfie on the beach — Selfie time!

students taking a selfie on the beach — Selfie time!

students sitting on the beach and enjoying a large bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos — We did it! (Flaming hot Cheetos time)

student photographing her partner holding his plaster casting — Oh yeah!

Students posing in front of the sunset at the Seal Beach Pier in Seal Beach, California — We came. We cast. We conquered.

student arranging a half dozen plaster castings in the sand — Setting up our pieces for a photo shoot

a snake made of plaster and seaweed slithers around a plaster cast boulder — Plaster Snake slithering around Plaster Boulder

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Glenn Zucman

BA, Psychology, University of Hawaii, MFA, Intermedia Art, Long Beach State. Host of American Public Media's "Border Patrol." Host of KBeach Radio's "Strange Angels." Interested in Identity Art that explores our Oracle-at-Delphi-like straddling of corporeal and virtual realms in our new media century. Civil rights in online space. 10 years of radio conversations with art & culture creators.

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