The Pithy Conservator

[Dennis Piechota]

My travels around the conceptual framework of conservation have sometimes led me to little dead ends, thoughts that start then stop abruptly. I realized these might also be called aphorisms, pithy statements of a general (if sometimes outdated) truth. Not sure but here is some of what I've collected:

     - In conservation the first step is stop.

     - There is no heroic preventive care.

     - The treatment only ends when the conservator rests easy at night... and that's never.

     - Young conservators question; old conservators accept.

     - B72 is not edible.

Do you have any?

Dennis

Dennis Piechota

Archaeological Conservator

Fiske Center for Archaeological Research
UMass Boston
Office: 617-287-6829

ALTCONS Group Admin

pXRF Group Co-admin

[Jane Piechota]

Dennis,

How about:

     - In conservation thinking is sometimes the best treatment.

Jane Drake Piechota

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[Anne Kingery-Schwartz]

- Better is the enemy of good.

-Less is more.

--Anne Kingery-Schwartz

[Dennis Piechota]

        "Fresh eyes find new mends."

Dennis

[Dennis Piechota]

   - Never say oops in the lab.

[Dennis Piechota]

"The best lesson taught to a conservator 

is the worst treatment they performed."

This is adapted from the saying about writers:

"The best thing that happens to writers

 is the worst thing they survive."

Dennis