Behind-the-Scenes with Vitaliy

The Gallery is lucky to have a talented team of experts in this area to carry out this work so central to our activities. One of WAG Conservator Vitaliy Yatsevych’s most recent projects is Kim Adams’ Earth Wagons, a miniature world constructed using toy train model parts. Earth Wagons took over 40 hours to complete, making it one of the most time consuming restorations over Vitaliy’s long tenure at the Gallery. Here he tells you why it was one of his favourites.

Vitaliy explains that in this case, the small details got detached over time, they were basically falling down. He had to identify them and put them in exactly the same place, so photo-documentation played an important role.

At some points I was losing sense of whether I was working or playing…I wouldn’t say it was the easiest project because some spots were not easy to reach…but it was definitely fun.
-Vitaliy Yatsevych, WAG Conservator

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Earth Wagons is on display on the Mezzanine Level of the WAG until July 14, 2024.

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