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Charlie Ponticello, Deep Water Sponger

Charlie Ponticello, Deep Water Sponger

OK Foundry cast Deep Water Sponger in iron for Charlie Ponticello. This was the first large cast iron sculpture at OK Foundry and our first love. Who can resist the lovable figure of Deep Water?

  • Charlie Ponticello (center), Jamie O'Neil (left) and Bill Scholl (right) during casting of Deep Water Sponger.
  • Deep Water Sponger foam leg pattern.
  • Charlie Ponticello breaking the torso casting out of the sand.
  • Deep Water Sponger torso casting just poured and revealed.
  • Deep Water Sponger in Charlie Ponticello's Richmond studio. The iron castings had to be carefully stitched together by Charlie to complete the sculpture.
  • Original plaster sculpture of Deep Water Sponger.
  • Foam pattern for Deep Water Sponger. The foam will burnout when metal is introduced into the mold.
  • Deep Water Sponger casting being poured.
  • Charlie Ponticello and Bill Scholl readying leg foam pattern for filling. inside of foam shell filled to make casting hollow.
  • Finished sculpture installed at Baltimore Inner Harbor.

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