We’re wondering if you really care about the jam or if you’re humouring us. We think its probably the latter but I’ll tell you anyway. We’re still eating the strawberry and its still pretty wonderful. We have four days left at Uvaia and then we’re moving to Valeria’s!We’re also trying to get away this weekend, preferably to Igacu Falls! We were debating how we would ever wake up without the Uvaia breakfast to look forward to but we bought some pineapple jam this afternoon that will definitely get us up next week!
We were working on the bronze sculpture again this morning. Issy was frustrated that she forgot her MP3 player (all she wanted was a cheesy pop soundtrack to brighten up her morning of polishing!) and we were both a little disappointed that the sculpture was not as shiney as we thought we had left it.
We were introduced to three men from “Fundicao Artistica No Brasil”, an organisation set up by the SESI-SP and SENAI-SP in order to save skills such as lost wax casting, which are becoming archaic. They were setting up equipment to conduct a 3D scan on a sculpture as a preliminary step to making a mould of it. They will be around for the next two weeks and we’re looking forward to learning more about their project.
Lunch fun. Chatted with Valeria, Yvi from the exhibition dept and Daphine from the educational dept.
Issy was dismayed to find a fresh batch of mould had appeared over the weekend. This new mould was different to before: there was less and this time it was green! Look forward to some photos of that tomorrow! Not one to be beaten by mould, Issy removed it with more synthetic saliva and hopefully it won’t return now. She spent the rest of the afternoon retouching the areas of loss on her sculpture.
This afternoon I continued to create more texture on my fills so that they will blend in with the paint strokes of my painting more. I then applied a separation layer of the adhesive Paraloid B72 dissolved in the solvent Xylene (1:5) over the fills and left it in the fume cupboard, ready for retouching tomorrow!
Tonight we gave up on the big healthy meals and ate two bags of crisps between us. I ate a lot of our new favourite peanut snack “Pacoquinhas” and Issy ate a load of biscuits.
We bought an orange to salvage our health and well beings but its still sitting lonely and uneaten on the table.
Lots of love to the UK! We have bought raisins and will soon make scones to unite you with Brazil!
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