Beyond Replication
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This workshop approaches mold making as an open system rather than a closed reproductive process. Students will explore kiln-casting through creative problem-solving, learning how a single mold can generate variation, transformation and unexpected results. We will work with found and handmade objects, refractory molds, wax, parting systems and other kiln-casting methods, while considering how materials carry memory, pressure and time. Technical demonstrations will include mold building, lost-wax casting, surface and form development and strategies for moving beyond replication toward sculptural invention. Alongside hands-on making, we will discuss the philosophical and artistic potential of casting: how absence, collapse, repetition and transformation can become active parts of the work. Students can expect to produce cast glass objects or experimental sculptural studies that reflect both technical learning and individual conceptual direction.
Katya Izabel Filmus is a Tel Aviv-based sculptor working primarily in kiln-cast glass. Her work explores memory, displacement, material transformation and the fragile architectures of personal and collective identity. Through mold-making, lost-wax processes and controlled collapse, she treats glass as a material capable of holding time while registering psychological states of fragility, tension and collapse. Katya studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and completed her MA at the University of Sunderland. She has taught and exhibited internationally, including at Corning Museum of Glass, North Lands Creative, the Eretz Israel Museum, Murano Glass Museum and Tel Aviv Artists House.
