Sometimes you need to fix a chicken...

Artists do many of things to earn a little 'scratch'...yes, bad pun, but when else can a person use it, right?
I was tasked by a local gallery to repair a piece by wonderful South American artist who had passed a number of years back. This sculpture was cast in Viet Nam in the 1990's and there's really no real way to tell what kind of metal it was made of. It was a challenge to find the means that would fix the piece but also be able to be removed down the road by a future conservator. I worked in a frame shop and was a coordinator for a gallery while in college so I learned a few things about repairs and preservation which came in handy years later.