Home of the Innocents mold work finish

The mold work comes to a completion on the two sculptures for the Home of the Innocents which will commemorate the work of Sister Emily Cooper and the over 200 children

buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY.The hands are readied for the mold work.These are two butterflies. They will be placed on the blanket in various patterns, emerging from the blanket and flying up from the children's blanket.This is the blanket, the spaces where the emerging butterflies are to be attached are marked on the blanket.

The sculpture has two coats of mold material, now it is ready to get shims. Steve applies the material into which the shims will be placed.Attaching the shims.Her shims all in place, she is now ready for the rest of the mold material.After all the layers of mold material are applied, she gets a mother mold of plaster. After that

dries, the mold is removed.This is the inside of the blanket mold.

Steve helps pack up the molds for the trip to Loveland, Colorado. The sculptures will be cast at

Art Casting of Colorado.
An assortment of mold sections.

A head and two hands is within this plaster. Don wraps a mold section in preparation of it's journey. It will then be placed with all the other mold sections into the crate behind Don. R & L Trucking picks up the crates.

Loading a crate with our truck.

Steve from R&L and Don position the crate on the truck.