ANCIENT URUSHI TSUGI PHOTO

Description

Practicing the urushi tsugi technique on photography is very complex because the main material used for this type of restoration, urushi lacquer, needs to be placed in a cabinet called MURO in a constant hot and humid condition to polymerize, while the papers on which the photograph is printed (baryta and poly-coated) fear the humidity. For this reason it took three years of research to arrive ate the first acceptable results.