Environmental Art: part 2

I just recently finished my first lost wax casting project. Lost wax casting, is a process were you carve an item out of jewelers wax. Then submerge it in a flask full of special high temperature plaster, called investment. The flask then goes into a kiln, where the wax is burned out, leaving an empty space where the wax used to be. Finally, the flask is attached to the arm of a centrifuge, where molten metal is forced into the flask by centrifical force.

I carved this ring because of a lizard that I saw on the corkscrew field trip which inspired me.:)
This was also a good lesson in material resources, because I discover that the gold in this ring was worth $200.00, Yikes :)