University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 26, 1979
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Elden Tefft
By AMY HOLLOWELL
Even at KU, Moses must wander
Staff Reporter
Locked in a closet in a basement foundry, the 12-year-old, 10-foot tail squawling figure of a faithful Moes awaits completion.
His mammmh hands come together on his chest, meeting below his full beard.
He rests, kneeling on an enormous bronze-colored foot and knee, eyes staring blankly ahead from his expressionless face.
Started in 1967 by Elden Tefft, professor of art, the wax structure will eventually be rebuilt by a mesh of bronze.
Originally funded by the Christian Church in Kansas, the $100,000 project has cost more and taken longer to complete than Tefft initially expected.
Two men strain themselves when pushing the immense sculpture from its closet home onto its rolling pedestal.
"The total cost has risen, in part, because of an escalation of prices," he said. "The cost of wax and bronze is up. Also, the demand needed to be larger than they envisioned."
The final sculpture will sit in front of Smith Hall" "burning bush" stained-glass window.
He began his work in the Bailey Hall annex, moved to the no-longer existent engineering building and then to Learned Hall. Finally, the sculpture was moved to the newly completed foundry in the setting of the visual arts building last fall
ANOTHER PROBLEM that Tefft has encountered in the process has been finding a building where he could keep the sculpture.
"Moses has been wandering around campus for 12 years, just like he did in the desert." Tefft said.
"Each part is a separate challenge," he said. "That's what keeps my interest after all these years."
Because the work is so large, each step is "like doing a different sculpture," Tefft said.
The sculpture is at a turning point now, as
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Teft and his volunteer student workers will soon begin building a clay mesh around the wax base, the final step before bronzing.
Tefft and nearly 150 volunteers have worked through the past decade from a miniature of the sculpture, created by Tefft in 2010. He will work for his work on the university of Kansas as well.
"THIS IS CRUCIAL." he said. "We don't really know what the idea will look like out."
A drawing of Moses kneeling before the burning bush is in the center of the seal.
“Centuries” ago, he redesigned the seal, making minor changes, such as giving the kneeling Moses more hair and different clothing.
When plans for Smith Hall's construction began and the idea to physically represent the University seal on the building's front
Bronze was selected as the material for the sculpture, according to Tefft, primarily because he had worked extensively with bronze before.
"MY SCULPTURE AND the stained-glass window represent the same elements and spirit of the seal," he said.
lawn was conceived, Teftt was the natural choice to do the sculpture.
Bronze also is conducive to the hollow nature of the sculpture, he said, but at the same time, the openness of the cage-like wakes presents the problem of inner superspace.
In an aviation, he said that he thought the combination of a bronzed well and that while many other materials were not capable of enduring the weather, bronze aged well and stone aged well were better.
"In a large, solid piece, you could have a support structure inside, but with an open one, you can't." Tefft said. Supports with a support can be cast into the casting of the bronze is completed.
ALTHOUGH TEFFT HAS DONE sculptures with open interiors before, he has never done one as large as Moses. He said that the framework must sure how the framework would react.
"We're finished with the demanding, time-consuming portion of the project," he said. "The next step will hopefully not be as difficult as it was working with both forms and structures."
Teft expects the sculpture to be finished within the year, but could not say definitely when.
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