The artist has created a few statues and fountains. These pieces, as 
well as the small bronzes and busts, are first made in clay. The 
large ones, modeled in this matter can not be kept as is. They have 
to me molded and reproduced because it's impossible to build them 
hollow, which would permit to bake them as ceramics. The thickness 
and the framework made of wood or metal create tensions in the clay 
that brakes while drying and stretching. As a matter of fact, we have 
to mold the clay while still wet with flexible silicones and, over 
it, with rigid shapes made of plaster or plastics to keep it all 
together. This is what we call the matrix, from which we can draw a 
few numbered copies. It is a complicated and expensive procedure.

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