失蜡法水晶铸造
水晶雕塑制作过程
作者：费迪·B·迪克
每件水晶作品都是我手工制作，限量发行。制作过程缓慢而精细。每一处表面都经过手工塑形、打磨和抛光。我采用失蜡法将三维原型铸造成水晶。首先用蜡模制作模具，然后将其包裹在陶瓷中，烧制掉蜡模，最后注入熔融玻璃。铸造完成后，我会进行脱模、切割、打磨、喷砂和抛光，直至作品造型完美，表面纹理清晰。
以下是制作步骤详解。它展示了其中涉及的劳动量，以及为什么每件雕塑作品都是限量、技术精湛且真正纯手工制作的。
1）创建原型
我首先用3D打印技术制作一个原型。它能确定比例和表面线条。这个模型将成为后续所有步骤的参考。
2）制作乳胶模具和蜡模
我在原型上浇铸了一个柔性乳胶模具。然后从这个模具中浇铸出一个蜡模。蜡模会显露出所有痕迹，所以我需要反复打磨和清理蜡模，直到表面光滑为止。
3）制作陶瓷模具
我将蜡包裹在耐火陶瓷壳中。然后将陶瓷壳放入窑炉中烧制。高温会去除蜡，留下一个干净的空腔，用来盛放熔融的晶体。
4）铸造水晶
我将称量的水晶装入模具，并按照精确的程序进行烧制。温度和时间至关重要。温度过高，作品会开裂；温度过低，细节则会丢失。
5）脱模
玻璃冷却后，我用手将陶瓷敲掉。这样就露出了带有浇口和窑皮的粗糙铸件，必须将其去除。
6）完善形式
我用手工工具剪掉浇口，打磨凸起部分，并修整细节。我彻底清除折痕和倒角处的所有陶瓷残留。
7）打磨、抛光和喷砂
我使用一系列从粗到细的研磨剂。有些地方我会进行轻微抛光，而另一些地方则会进行喷砂处理，以获得哑光且能保持光线的表面。这种对比赋予了作品生命力。
8）最终检查
我会在强光下仔细检查作品，修正任何瑕疵，并签名。只有这样，作品才会离开工作室。
我探索的主题：
Ferdi B Dick is a contemporary sculptor known for emotionally charged animal forms, symbolic characters, and visually distinctive works that move between fine art, collectible sculpture, and large-scale public art. Originally from South Africa and now based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with his company headquartered in Singapore, he works across collector editions, exhibitions, and major commissioned projects.
通过动画形象探索情绪状态
我的作品致力于探索情绪状态，经常使用动画或象征性的化身，以一种轻松的方式描绘复杂的感受。
伸出舌头的概念，就像在狮子呼吸瑜伽姿势中所见的那样，代表着强有力的释放时刻 - 摆脱紧张并找到禅宗般的平静状态。
纵观历史，雕塑都是按照神和英雄的形象制作的。这些人物被理想化和崇敬，成为激励的象征，提醒人们社会珍视的价值观和愿望。
我的雕塑重新诠释了这个想法，创造出鼓励人们停下来、呼吸和活在当下的护身符或标志。它们旨在唤起一种释放感，将玩乐与正念融为一体。把它们想象成带有一点扭曲的“快乐艺术”——提醒人们拥抱生活中的轻松时刻，释放压力。
与日本的招财猫非常相似，我的图标也具有一个目的：作为焦点，吸引积极性和幸福感。
Ferdi B Dick’s practice explores emotion through sculptural form. Drawing on a background in 3D animation, he creates works that feel suspended between movement and stillness, often using animals and animated avatars as vehicles for emotional expression. His sculptures balance playfulness and seriousness, turning gesture, posture, and exaggerated form into reflections on release, vulnerability, strength, joy, and transformation.
Recurring themes in Ferdi B Dick’s work include:
• emotional states expressed through animal and symbolic forms
• movement, transformation, and frozen moments in time
• playfulness combined with psychological depth
• nostalgia, memory, and childhood visual culture
• icons, avatars, and sculptural talismans
• release, breath, and the tension between control and freedom
• visually striking forms designed to resonate both emotionally and spatially
Animals appear often in my work because they let me hold emotion without over-explaining it. I am not interested in them as decoration. I use them more as carriers of breath, tension, joy, care, memory, or release. A lion, dog, owl, horse, or whale each opens a different emotional register. That gives me room to make sculpture that feels immediate, but still layered.
Read more: Interview with Ferdi B Dick: Emotional Avatars, Icons, and Release
The lion has become one of the clearest ways for me to work with breath, presence, memory, and release. It is not just a repeated subject. It is a form I keep returning to because it continues to hold emotional weight for me across different materials and scales.
Read more:
Why Lion’s Roar Keeps Coming Back in My Work
Lion’s Breath Exhibition
I am interested in the moment just before release, the held breath, the surge of movement, the instant where energy becomes visible. Sculpture gives me a way to trap that fleeting feeling in something permanent.
Read more:
A Frozen Slice of Motion
Cloud-Mane Horse, Can Air Have Weight?
I like stainless steel because it lets the surface become part of the experience. It reflects light, space, and the viewer, which gives the work a kind of living presence. It also suits the precision of the forms I design and allows a finish that feels clean, sharp, and complete.
Read more: Interview with Ferdi B Dick: Emotional Avatars, Icons, and Release
My background in 3D animation still shapes how I think. I often begin digitally, using tools like Houdini and ZBrush to develop form, movement, and structure before the work moves into physical making. That process lets me combine computational precision with hand-finished material presence.
I do not choose materials only for technical reasons. Each material changes the emotional register of the work. Stainless steel can feel alive and reflective. Crystal carries light differently. Stone gives more weight and permanence. The same form can shift meaning when the material changes.
Read more:
Crystal Sculpture Collection
Why Lion’s Roar Keeps Coming Back in My Work
I do not see collector pieces and public sculpture as separate practices. They come from the same way of thinking about form, presence, and emotional impact. Sometimes that idea becomes something intimate and close to the body. Sometimes it becomes something large enough to alter a public space.
Read more:
Large-Scale Public Sculpture Commissions
Embrace the Amazing Whale
I like tension in sculpture. A work can be highly refined and still have humour in it. It can be elegant and slightly absurd at the same time. That contrast keeps the work alive for me.
Read more: Hehe Rabbit
I am interested in presence more than size on its own. Some ideas need to live close to a person, almost like a private companion. Others need scale, air, distance, and public visibility. What matters is that the work still carries emotional force.
Read more: Large-Scale Public Sculpture Commissions
I want the work to hold something that is felt before it is explained. That might be breath, pressure, tenderness, humour, memory, or release. The form matters, the finish matters, and the scale matters, but the emotional charge is what makes a sculpture stay with you.
Read more: Interview with Ferdi B Dick: Emotional Avatars, Icons, and Release
我使用的材料：
Ferdi B Dick is available for selected commissions, including:
• large-scale public sculpture
• private collector commissions
• hospitality and luxury property commissions
• architectural and integrated art projects
• bespoke sculpture editions
• special presentation gifts and premium branded art commissions
Projects involving strong visual impact, symbolic storytelling, animal forms, and landmark-style sculptural presence are especially aligned with his practice.
Some of Ferdi B Dick’s best-known works and series include:
• Lion’s Breath
• Roar
• Running Blind
• dog sculpture series
• guardian lion / Foo Lion works
• Cloud-Mane Horse
• Embrace the Amazing Whale
• Hehe Rabbit
• Lucky Tiger Astronauts
• Ox public sculpture
Together, these works reflect a practice that moves fluidly between collectible objects, exhibition pieces, and public-scale sculpture.
Ferdi B Dick has exhibited in both national and international contexts, including in:
• South Africa
• Belgium
• Spain
• China
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Malaysia
His exhibition history includes gallery shows, art fairs, public art projects, and internation
Embrace the Amazing Whale (Zhanjiang, China, 9m, stainless steel, 2024). Hehe Rabbit (Taiyuan, China, 7m inflatable, 2023). Tiger Astronauts (Taiyuan, 3 sculptures, 2022). Ox (Taiyuan, 5m, 2021). He has also completed sculptures in Thailand.
Every sculpture begins as a digital model in Houdini and ZBrush. The design is refined computationally before any metal is cut. The digital model is then translated into physical form through lost-wax casting, welding, and hand-polishing in workshops in China.
Bronze Award and Most Market Value Award at the Zayton Cup International Design Competition in China (2021) for his sculpture Lina Lion Dancer.
Materials I Use:
Ferdi B Dick works across a range of collector-grade and architectural materials, including:
• stainless steel
• crystal
• bronze
• marble
• granite
• wood
His work often combines contemporary visual language with traditional craftsmanship, including lost-wax casting techniques, refined finishing, and materials chosen for both durability and emotional effect.
我的艺术核心是致力于创造永恒的作品，无论是美观还是耐用。与许多使用易降解材料的短暂“流行”或“快乐”艺术不同，我只使用可以世代相传的档案级材料。我的雕塑体现了持久的品质，由青铜、不锈钢、水晶、大理石和偶尔的优质木材制成。每件饰面都经过精心考虑，以增强艺术品的持久性和情感影响力，确保它能经久不衰。
我使用 316L 不锈钢，这是一种以耐用性和精致外观而闻名的高级材料。镜面抛光表面营造出引人注目的视觉效果，反射光线和周围环境，营造出一种运动和活力的感觉。
耐用性：耐锈蚀、耐腐蚀和耐环境因素，适合室内和室外安装。
可持续性：不锈钢 100% 可回收，主要由废金属制成，符合环保做法。
对于重视艺术品的持久性和审美光彩的收藏家来说，这种材料是理想的选择。
青铜是雕塑艺术的经典材料，因其强度、多功能性和永恒魅力而备受推崇。它能够进行复杂的细节处理，是捕捉微妙形状和纹理的绝佳选择。每件青铜作品都经过细致的失蜡铸造工艺，因此雕塑不仅经久耐用，而且优雅地随着时间流逝而优雅地流逝。青铜雕塑经受住了时间的考验，有些甚至能保存数千年，展现出其无与伦比的耐用性和永恒魅力。这些雕塑要么抛光成镜面效果，要么经过上色处理，更增添了其持久的美感
水晶是一种奢华的材料，象征着优雅、清澈和工艺。我的水晶雕塑采用古老的失蜡铸造技术制作而成，这种方法源于公元前 11 世纪的手工艺传统。该工艺要求精确性和技巧，类似于青铜铸造，但要求不那么苛刻，因此制作出来的作品具有无与伦比的美丽和独特性。
独特的魅力：每个雕塑都具有磨砂表面，具有复古的魅力，通过在铸造过程中注入金属和矿物质实现了鲜艳的色彩。
耐用性：这些雕塑耐刮擦、耐碎裂、耐磨损，能世世代代保持光彩。
每件水晶作品都采用时尚的保护性包装，使其成为收藏家的精美选择或作为奢华的礼物。
大理石和花岗岩散发出永恒和宏伟的感觉，将艺术品与古典传统联系起来，同时保持现代感。我使用精心挑选的石头，包括：
- 马奎纳黑色大理石
- 四川白大理石
- 广西白大理石
- 芝麻白花岗岩
这些石头因其耐用性和独特的纹理图案而闻名，使得每个雕塑都独一无二。
有时，我会加入胡桃木和山毛榉等优质木材，因为它们色调丰富，触感温暖。木制作品制作精良，兼具自然之美和手工技艺。对于较小的雕塑，我经常将它们包装在定制的滑动木盒中，增添一层精致感。
精选展览和公共雕塑：
18-12-2024 Everard Read Franschhoek 冬季展，南非弗朗斯胡克
2023年12月25日 “拥抱神奇的鲸鱼”公共雕塑，湛江花园城，中国
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/embrace-the-amazing-whale
11-02-2023 “咆哮！”个展，131 a画廊，开普敦，南非
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/roar-exhibition
03-02-2023 “狮子的呼吸”个展，埃弗拉德·里德，约翰内斯堡，南非
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/lions-breath-exibition
2022-12-12 “超级疗愈巨人‘呵呵兔’”充气公共雕塑，太原，中国
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/hehe-rabbit
18-12-2022 Everard Read Franschhoek 夏季展，弗朗斯胡克，南非
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/up-and-up-exhibition
2022年6月28日Everard Read Franschhoek冬季展，南非弗朗斯胡克
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/panda-mium-in-exhibition
13-07-2022 冬季系列团体展 - Everard Read 开普敦
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/wagging-the-dog-exhibition
28-06-2022 Everard Read Franschhoek 春季秀 Franschhoek
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/dogs-running-exhibition
12-02-2022 “幸运虎宇航员” 公共雕塑，太原，中国
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/lucky-tiger-astronauts
12-12-2021 夏季系列团体展 - Everard Read 开普敦
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/over-the-rainbow-exhibition
12-02-2021 “牛” 公共雕塑，太原，中国
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/ox-public-sculpture
12-12-2020 夏季系列群展，埃弗拉德·里德，南非开普敦
2020-03-10 131 A画廊群展，开普敦，南非
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/proteaceae-exhibition
2020 年 7 月 13 日 冬季系列群展 - Everard Read，开普敦，南非
16-01-2020 “台北艺术博览会” Artfuture，Veart画廊，台北
2019 年 5 月 12 日 夏季系列群展 - Everard Read，开普敦，南非
2019 年 7 月 28 日 自画像群展 - Glen Carlou 画廊，南非
2019 年 7 月 13 日 冬季系列群展 - Everard Read Franschhoek，南非
https://www.everard-read-franschhoek.co.za/exhibition/36/exhibition_works/710
2019 年 6 月 12 日 冬季团体展，埃弗拉德·里德，开普敦，南非
https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/exhibition/176/press_release/
09-12-2018 Everard Read Franschhoek 春季展，弗朗斯胡克，南非
https://everard-read-franschhoek.co.za/artist/FERDI%20B._DICK/works/709
08-11-2018 沙龙艺术+设计团体展，纽约，美国
20-09-2018 “FOUNDRY PROOF”，南方行会，开普敦，南非
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/foundry-proof-exhibition
2018年2月14日 “非凡” 展览，南方行会，开普敦，南非
https://ferdibdick.com/blogs/news/i-don-t- believe-in-unicorns-exhibition