Cassette Sculpture

During my childhood I briefly used cassettes until CD's took over, but there was always something irreplaceable about the tape itself, the effort they took to make, the sound they produce, and the sleeve with the cover art and lyrics inside. They produce a certain feel in time, memories of cinematic excellence, and a sense of love and of a simpler moment in history. I wanted to capture these emotions and cast them in bronze, purposefully aging the work and making it imperfect to reflect the journey of the cassette itself and the times it represents. I took a mold of an actual cassette and completed the rest of the process to pour it into bronze, which was quite difficult to capture the small details such as the inner wheels or the bottom section where the tape is read through the player. Overall I am very happy with how this came out and hope that someone else feels the same emotions I do when they see it.