Karl Hallberg

This sculpture is part of a series called Faceless – I use found objects and recycled cast aluminium to create objects that both leave room for the imagination of the viewer and at the same time talk about the force of human belief, conviction or imagination. By leaving some features blank I let the viewer fill in the blanks. The viewers must decide if they possess force, it´s up to the viewer to find out what kind.

The casting process is quite crude, insolation foam board is cut into sculptures and buried in sand, and after the molten aluminium is poured onto the foam which instantly evaporates and leaves a void for the metal.  When cooled down, the sculptures – now transformed into metal are excavated. All materials will affect the outcome- The sand in which the metal is shaped leaves marks and sticks to the surface of the sculptures. The gases developed by evaporating the foam creates unplanned distortions. All surfaces are left as the process made them – in this way the nature of the materials is present in parallel with the intangible force.