(Q - Montez Christo: Failing to find the real owl, the mini owls, do you have information or not?)
MB: The mini owls are in production then. It's extremely delicate to do because it's not at all the same manufacturing method as the ones I made in 2000, I don't remember, 2000, 2005, I don't know when, so what we always see it circulating, it was a sand casting, so it was something much more I would say, less rewarding than a bronze. Besides, it's closer to brass than to bronze, the metal itself, there, these are real bronzes which are made by an art founder individually, and I went at the foundry about ten days ago I think. The casting will be done shortly, I am working on the engraving, the chemical engraving system, so for the bases which will be made there and I think we will have between 40 and 70. So the foundryman is a little bit..., He is careful because he tells me, the wings are so thin, it's a bit of a delicate casting, so there may be some misses, so they will be done, the casting will be done in 2 times, I think and the first ones should be ready around, I imagine, around November 10, 15, so, within a fortnight, I think.
He works very carefully knowing that it is a series of 150, there will be no others eh. That's it and it's really..., here we are, it's a completely different product from the previous ones. These are really small sculptures that will receive a patina, etc., it will be very different from the previous ones. I know it's very long, it bothers me too, but at the same time there are people, really super professionals who are working on it and I think that the result, the wait will have been long, but I think that people who have these mini owls will not be disappointed with the result.
MB: The mini owls are in production then. It's extremely delicate to do because it's not at all the same manufacturing method as the ones I made in 2000, I don't remember, 2000, 2005, I don't know when, so what we always see it circulating, it was a sand casting, so it was something much more I would say, less rewarding than a bronze. Besides, it's closer to brass than to bronze, the metal itself, there, these are real bronzes which are made by an art founder individually, and I went at the foundry about ten days ago I think. The casting will be done shortly, I am working on the engraving, the chemical engraving system, so for the bases which will be made there and I think we will have between 40 and 70. So the foundryman is a little bit..., He is careful because he tells me, the wings are so thin, it's a bit of a delicate casting, so there may be some misses, so they will be done, the casting will be done in 2 times, I think and the first ones should be ready around, I imagine, around November 10, 15, so, within a fortnight, I think.
He works very carefully knowing that it is a series of 150, there will be no others eh. That's it and it's really..., here we are, it's a completely different product from the previous ones. These are really small sculptures that will receive a patina, etc., it will be very different from the previous ones. I know it's very long, it bothers me too, but at the same time there are people, really super professionals who are working on it and I think that the result, the wait will have been long, but I think that people who have these mini owls will not be disappointed with the result.