This was the 2nd or 3rd piece I did, and put aside because I was unsure of how I wanted to finish it. After a couple of years I noticed the gathering layer of dust and decided that acquiring a patina of dust was the finishing touch. It was carefully moved with me from studio to studio for the next 30 years. The challenge was fixing the dust so it wouldn’t fall off, a sneeze could ruin the piece. I experimented with dust retrieved from household spots, developing techniques to permanently adhere the dust, one of which involved heat vaporizing urethane to gently coat the dust. The urethane worked but also gave everything a yellowish tint. What I needed to do was similar to a pastel drawing sprayed with fixative, but spraying it with fixative directly would just blow off the dust. I took a long rectangular cardboard box, cut open the back end and placed it near a widow fan, at the top of the front end cut an opening, and inside the box inserted a couple of panels for the air to flow around. I placed the art in the back end of the box and sprayed pastel fixative in the front top opening, the baffling of the box prevented the spray from directly hitting the art but the draft from the fan pulled the fine mist onto the sculpture, securing the dust.