Casting
Casting describes the means to secure the body for internal healing. I wore a soft cast to stabilize my ankle after slipping from a high step while carrying heavy ceramic tiles. This injury is still with me 30 years later, with legs that buckle under the body weight of occasional instability. My mother slipped on the stairs and broke her ankle while carrying one-year-old me 50 years ago, though in a full leg, plaster cast for months, the injury has affected the fluidity of her walking movement ever since.
Casting from a mould is a process method for replication of an original, perhaps to preserve the legacy of an object, perhaps to commodify the original.
Casting is also an act of extrusion from a body. From a psycho-spiritual perspective, we release emotions from the body, casting aside our fears in order to forge ahead in new situations. We make intentions physical with rituals, whether throwing a penny into a pond for good luck, or casting a spell with incantation to influence outer forces in flow in our favor.
Casting parts of my own body may be a form of wish fulfillment: That by replicating what I am, and what comes from me will be subject to the imperfection and vulnerability with which I find myself struggling most of the time. There is absence of anything within the cast until it is filled with the hopeful illumination of video. That is the wish casting.