This summer, a conservation team funded by the Central Park Conservancy completed a laser cleaning process on the Obelisk at Central Park. The Obelisk was first built almost 3,500 years ago at Heliopolis, in the outskirts of modern Cario, Egypt. In 1880, the monument was gifted to New York City, re-erected a year later in Central Park. Bartosz Danjnowski was involved in the project team which undertook the cleaning, removing over 130 years of soot accumulation to reveal the ancient hieroglyphics and original granite for the public to see.

Objects conservator Bartosz Dajnowski, MS, is a graduate of the Winterthur University of Delaware Masters Program in Art Conservation.  He has a BA in Art History and Economics from Northwestern University.   Bartosz is Vice Director of the Conservation of Sculpture & Objects Studio, Inc., and has been specializing in the use of laser ablation to clean works of art for over 10 years.  He has received extensive training in laser ablation technology at the Military University of Technology, Institute of Optoelectronics, in Poland.  He also received laser maintenance training at the El. En. Group in Italy.

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