DYING: SALT BREEZE EATS THE WORK OF ART

In our famous Mamallapuram many sculptures are going out of their sharpness because of the salty breeze, so archaeologists are doing their best researches to protect our ancient sculptures they also try the latest technology chemicals to protect our ancient sculptures, here an archaeologist Muthan dakram says about how and what all the chemicals they use to protect sculptures, Everbrite coatings will protect sculptures from oxidation and corrosion.

If graffiti happens to get on a sculpture coated with Incralac or other cross linked coatings, the area must be sand blasted, then we should re-coat it. With Everbrite, the graffiti can be wiped off with a solvent like xylene and the coating can be reapplied. Everbrite is self-annealing and will blend to itself so the repairs will not be noticeable. He says that it is the oldest method now after many research people have come with new chemical cements to protect the mono lithic rocks.

The most common cements are quartz, calcite, clay minerals, and hematite, although other minerals like pyrite, gypsum, and barite can also form cements under special geologic conditions, these are the chemicals cements which are use today in monolithic rocks he says, and says that It works very much on monolithic rocks because the chemical cements blend naturally with the rocks and reaction takes place soon, so it is so effective to use these kind of chemicals, we can only save the sculptures in coming centuries we can’t create one.

so we should our best to save these sculptures, because sculptures are our identity.