This morning there was no new jam, but we have requested pineapple jam before we leave Uvaia hostel. Lets hope we can make one more final jam update really worth it!
Shine:
Today we requested the help of four macho men, Ana and both of us to turn the sculpture over so we can start to clean the other side. We were disappointed when we turned it as this side was very dirty and dull, so lots of more polishing! Grace also used the small vacuum to remove the dust before we polished the morning away.
Mould:
This afternoon when I went to get my sculpture I was greeted with another small layer of mould! This layer luckily was not very thick at all and was mostly just a white fluffy layer, but this is very annoying! So I swabbed off the layer with synthetic salvia which took quite a long time, then carried on re touching with watercolours and finally testing out some fill materials.
Paint:
Grace has been retouching her fills using Toluene and pigments.
We unfortunately did not achieve that much today with our main projects because this afternoon Valeria gave a talk to Sao Paulo technical college about the conservation unit and what they do. Manuel gave a tour and small talk about the labs as well, we attended the talk and sat with our pieces and talked a little about them. But everyone there was really interested in the fact that we came from England and one of the tutors asked for the University’s contact details to be able to start a possible exchange! Which would be absolutely great!
Other news:
We are moving out of our hostel on Thursday, leaving our belongings at Valeria’s apartment and then going off for the weekend to Iguazu falls!! Very exciting!
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