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Projects like this are fascinating for reasons, I guess, unintentional to their creators.

Is what you can see at this level of detail helping anyone understand the painting?

Someone thinks so. So what do we now know?



I think projects like this help you develop a felt understanding of the painting as a unique physical artifact that is not fully reproduced by prints or scans.


I now know there are somewhat rectangular 1mm length fibers embedded in the paint of this work. A secret only art preservationists knew prior.




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