This is one of my most prized possessions mainly because (like snowflakes) it's one of a kind. This is an aluminum cast of the interior of a fire ant colony. One day surfing through Youtube I came across another material engineer who like me also had a foundry. All he did was use his foundry and pour molten aluminum into one of the hole of an anthill and I called up my friend and said "Get the F#%k over here". I showed him at how beautiful the finished sculptor was and I looked up others and each one just blew my mind so that weekend me and my friend called up a friend we knew since Elementary School to use his pickup truck and since my mom is a location scout she gave us a perfect field full of anthills. We spent the entire day there just melting and pouring and these anthills just kept taking in the aluminum that we didn't know if it was working or if we should stop or if the metal underground was ready to explode. So after 8 pours the aluminum reached the surface with the final pour. After waiting10 minutes to make sure everything was hardened we excavated the site and pulled out the anthill you see above. It took 2 months of chiseling rocks and cleaning and shining to become the sculptor you see today.