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Okay, here's your follow-up. It's been about two weeks since I introduced you to this piece of art. The glue hasn't even fully dried, which is cray cray. And once these dry, which I mean, eventually they're gonna have to, right? So I got this antique silver foil. My fear is that it will read as a mirror, which it does, and that's no good. So then the other thought is, it would be cool if there was something back there intentional. I'm gonna focus on cleaning up this, but when it's on a shelf, you're not seeing the back. Then the other option, just line the top and the sides and then it just covers that. I don't hate this. I don't hate it because I think if I put something in the back, just solid color. It's interesting, but it's not reflective. It gives it a kind of a cool shadow effect. Is that a thing? So if I silver the top and I put something non-reflective in the back, how would I do that? What would that be? I don't know. I have velvets, but how would I even anchor it? Cause I can't just like obviously glue it to the back. You'll see the glue. What a conundrum. Unless I wrap it, but then you'll see the edge of that on the front. The velvet has a pile, which is why it works. If I put it up against the white, I guess it kind of still works if it's just against a flat color. You get that cool shadow, but it's missing the light. And I feel like the light's what makes it special. Aah! I wish I could just foil the back of them. Okay, so this is where I'm heading. I think, at least the edge. Oh, I could tape off the edge before I foil. I could tape off, create a little bit of a lip. Pour a black resin base across the whole thing. But a resin base will be shiny in black. In white, it won't be. And then these edges will be covered. So we're not necessarily even gonna see that, though, when it's like this. It's up against there. We still see the reflection. I could pour it white, and then I could coat it from the back with silver. So from the back, it just looks like a silver bar and the edges are silver. Ugh. Maybe that's what I'll do.