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| title: | Extended Shadow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| date: | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| material: | Lead, par-gilded | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| client: | The Government Art Collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Extended
Shadow stands
in the garden of the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris.
It is formed from
stacked, lead octagons, and the upper and lower surfaces of the exposed
edges are leaf gilded. The gilded sections had become worn
and the lead surfaces were affected by limescale from garden sprinklers. |
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Firstly,
the lead surfaces were carefully cleaned to remove all limescale,
algae and dirt. The gilded sections were then carefully masked off
so that a coat of primer paint could be applied to each triangular
section.This was followed by the application of oil size and two layers
of 24 carat gold leaf. |
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