 Well, I knew it was in bad shape, but when I saw it, yes, I was surprised. It was a combination of probably sadness, but then then being sort of sort of thrilled to be able to to revisit and to have maybe maybe Some control over something that I hadn't had control over since the piece was sold Yeah, and it was sold. It took me a year to make and it sold within the first 45 minutes And I just didn't realize what that was going to feel like. Yeah, I Was just really open to to I guess The approach of conservation. I really knew nothing about it. I Knew that that that there was going to be Long journey between the time that the piece came in and was Pieces and parts on the lab table to the point where we Would finish it and and I had to just trust that that was going to happen that I had no idea how Right, how that was going to happen. That's kind of a leap of faith on your parts I mean it was it reminded me of an archaeological dig where the respect and the Sort of rebuilding of what This piece was through Memory and dialogue and photographs would be reconstructed. Right. And so that was quite amazing I thought it was very interesting that that So there was a whole kind of Chemical or chemistry Element to the restoration process was really interesting and actually pulled it back to Ideas that I've had in working with concepts of alchemy and Healing and restoration so That was fine with me Well, yes, absolutely. We were going to improve the piece. I didn't know until the end if we could really um bring the piece back to The visual impact that we had when it was first made piece was finished and Every time that I went to the museum and I was just sort of like a fly on the wall People were blown away. They were I know that people So they cried they had never seen anything like it that it was their favorite piece. They never seen and so as like I was just so Blown away at the the karma of this piece that that it had made it back Yeah to the museum in the end and I felt really good about it It really was like bringing something back to life that I felt like I had given up on Yeah, the original intent on the piece was to sort of illustrate A 73 year lifetime in in a moment well as an artist it was just really interesting it was like a re-entering into the past and and then resuscitating a piece Through time somewhere lost Right just through the neglect of the piece so it probably first ended up yeah kind of evening out in the end and I Think that That that that was part of the the karma of the piece like there is a point Where you have to to sort of let yourself go and realize that there is a Process that happens without Your total control and that's part of the piece you know once again, it's it's the precision and the artistry and the the The patience and that and the painstaking process That The time is not an element I mean, I know that that every one is on it and sort of a time and economical frame but also that the That the conservators take they they They get the job done whatever it takes in terms of the delicacy and Patience and the discovery and The kind of courage to say yes, I can fix this Which I think it's pretty amazing. Yeah, because you look at a piece that really doesn't Seem like like it's really ever gonna come back to life. And then it walks out of the lab and I don't think the audience knows the difference. So That's amazing Felt like it was part of this long journey as an artist and I was very Honored and also I just happened to really like the people that I was working with it really helped Oh that that really made it And it just made it possible and And such a positive experience and then the end result was so great I mean in the end It was a total success