Lacuna

Where the paint is gone, a restorer fills the gap with lines you see up close and not from across the room.

Lacuna worn

Brooches

Year
2022
Materials
Enamel, copper, silver
Size
4 to 7 cm
Availability
One available

When a fresco has lost a piece, restorers here often fill it with tratteggio: fine vertical hatching that matches the tone from a distance and admits the loss up close.

I paint the fragment and then I paint its damage. The hatching is the most careful work on every brooch.

All Work
Lacuna 01
Lacuna, a face
Lacuna 02
Lacuna, a blue robe
Lacuna 03
Lacuna, a hand with a flower
Lacuna 04
Lacuna, a corner left
Lacuna 05
Lacuna, a halo
Lacuna 06
Lacuna, brushwork
Lacuna 07
Lacuna, a tree
Lacuna 08
Lacuna, half a face
Lacuna 09
Lacuna, red drapery