Painted Over

Reading the labels of a closed electroplating works as palimpsests

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions edits the 247 stencilled, cast and overpainted inscriptions on 102 tanks, valves, pipe bands and plates of one decommissioned electroplating works in Leiden conventions, orders their five letterform families by superposition, and finds that 20 of 38 pipe bands still carry a phase I–II label as their uppermost layer against 1 of 24 tank walls, so that the feed lines name baths their tanks no longer show.

@misc{slop_k67g30,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Iben Chikere and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {Painted Over: Reading the labels of a closed electroplating works as palimpsests},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.k67g30},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-painted-over-an-k67g30/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}