The paintings, installed at Harvard Art Museum, have been ‘restored’ by projecting light onto the surface of the canvas reviving the original colors. Conservationist Narayan Khandekar says that they are ‘using light to fill in those missing areas.” Christopher Rothko remarks that “they still feel like paintings. Because it’s just projecting a transparent light on there – you still have the feel of the brushstrokes, you still have the feel of the canvas, you can still feel that this is a real object.”
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