Beneath.

Picked up the piece that I am going to be restoring, there is a fair amount of damage, some mold caused by damp from an undetermined source. The frame was damaged too so I had to make up a new one, the text on the frame was fading, the piece was called The Prophetess. Artists name is to faded to make out, and there seems to be no allusion to which Prophetess it actually is.

A quick study indicated that this piece was of a certain art movement, alas records doesn’t confirm what the movement was which is a pain.

I repaired and re-stretched the canvas over the new frame, cleaned up the paint work and the mold. We haven’t discovered any information on the construct of D’ni paint and how it was mixed so I ended up using surface equivalents and matching the colours up, matched them up nicely I think in the end.

I have a hi res scan of the piece here: The Prophetess.
For those of you who are interested, you can see the worst of the mold in the top left, haven’t managed to remove it all safely yet.

One thing about being in the Cavern so long restoring stuff, we have the processes down pretty well which means we can get things sorted out quickly, at least with smaller items anyway, bigger restoration projects always take longer not surprisingly.

Still got some work to do before I send it off to the SR guys.

Seem to be spending a lot of time in the office lately.

Working on liquidizing the Restorers Guild site. Site doesn’t get updated as much as it should, and given Rob is happily financing the group the site isn’t really needed. So I have been sat in the office merging content from the Restorers Guild site to my Beneath site.

Seem to be spending a lot of time mulling things over lately.

Sometimes I feel the group got too big, back when we all got together it was just the 4 of us, myself, Keira, Dave and James and later Soph joined us. Back then it was about restoring D’ni, about learning and uncovering the mysteries.
Dave was killed and James fled the cavern, so Steve joined us, and it became about restoration and learning The Art.
We got funding, Keira’s husband Joe joined us and we had engineers, the group became considerably bigger.

Breakthroughs came, Ages were written and the society was formed and the Ter’ni project crafted. Was this evolution of the group or did the group, like me, loose its way?

So where do we go from here, does the group go back to being small? Does the group continue without me? Originally I wasn’t going to stay, joined to help with a few projects and to get help with Tefoonetahn.

So much to think about, to much to think about.

Returned to the Cavern today after spending Christmas with the family. Going to be spending the next few days in the Firemarble Office working on some of the web projects (Firemarble, Lechuguilla Society, Guild of Fine Artists etc) that I am working on.

Rob is due to come down tomorrow to see Ter’ni and discuss the Ter’ni Project with the society. Need to find out if he plans on joining the project or just wants to continue funding.

Need to run by the Age later and see if Sophie is back and get the data from that KI we found in Noloben.

Noloben trip is being postponed until next week, an issue has arisen in Age 0003. Seismic activity had been building up over the last week, it had opened a fissure in the wall of the caldera the resulting split damaged the observation pod standing over it.

The pod was sealed up and the lava built up within it before breeching the observation window. Seems our construction of the pods weakened the surrounding rock leading to this problem.

Thankfully the other 2 pods are shielded from the middle segment, so they can still be used, we are going to fortify the doors to the center pod just in case. Going to have to find a way to circumvent the middle pod to get to the last one though, as pod 3 is the one that has access to the surrounding surface area of the volcano.

Shall see what the engineers make of it I guess.

Observation equipment has been set up in 0003.
Sophie’s team has set up camera’s around the caldera and the pods have been constructed along the walls.

We have put a time-frame of one year on the observation, at which point it will be brought before the Guild again and we shall decide what to so with the Age.

We have noticed a fair amount of seismic activity, not enough to be worrying at the moment but there is rumbles every now and then.