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          We welcome you to take the time to observe all the finished bronze sculptures. I want to give thanks

          to the Creator for the inspiration and the abilities to express in such a form by human hands a creative

          expression of some of the accomplishments of His hands and ability. I have a Western, Wildlife and

          Religious Bronzes to express such as this.   

          The bronze statue by human hands is another way to gain the revelation of God's creative

          abilities found and seen in the beauty of the creatures which manifest forth his needed glory.

          After an indvidual statue was developed into a clay form it was submitted unto the foundry.

          There it has gone through the art of the "Lost Wax Process". That is what it was called after a

          known event came about in Third Millennium B.C. It was somewhere between the Black Sea

          and the Persian Gulf, where an artist crafted a vision in beeswax, then covered it in liquid clay

          and cooked it in a fire. In the fire the wax was lost [ melted ], replaced by an empty space. Then

          there was tin and copper-alloys of bronze that was gathered and heated. Once melted the metal

          was poured into the cavity of the fire hardened clay. After the metal was cool, then the sculptor

          knocked the clay from the metal and the results being the first bronze piece cast. 

                                            "...Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hands..." ( Jer. 18: 6b ).