"It wasn't more than a few weeks later that a picture by Soutine, of a woman's head, painted in an unusual manner, nicely framed and heavily varnished, turned up for sale in Buenos Aires," Dahl concludes.
She never sits on the sofa, looking down at her fingernails as she slowly paints on layer after layer of scarlet varnish, looking up to tell him some invented story about a helicopter or a cat.
To keep each piece resilient to outside elements, Bujana varnishes them with up to five layers of glass finish polish.
A good one is to make up a jigsaw, varnish it into place and hang it onto a board.
To finish things up, you can varnish, seal or paint, but don't get any of it on the rotating surfaces – they'll stick every time you adjust the arm or swivel.
Its displays must remain meaningful, and its technology up-to-date, so that it does not merely varnish the efforts of the activists it celebrates.
Heavily varnished to tart it up, probably not too long ago, the paint surface has been slightly flattened in the process.
"He was kind enough to pull up the carpets in the three main rooms and to sand and varnish the wood floors," she said.
Did Almodóvar varnish it digitally?
