We contacted Sonfist's studio in New York to provide insight on how to treat and display this artwork. The studio requested that we remove the creases and pin the work to the wall during installation. Instead of pins, I suggested using rare earth magnets to avoid piercing the canvas and fraying the edges. Sonfist’s studio agreed to this installation method.

As with every conservation treatment, our approach was incremental. After testing with small-scale mock-ups, we humidified the artwork in a humidity chamber. This treatment relaxed many of the lesser creases but the strongest still remained, and we needed a new approach.

As a next step, we stretched the canvas onto a temporary stretcher with Velcro clips and relaxed the wrinkles from the reverse using distilled water and a warm conservation iron. We removed graphite smudges along the wrinkles with a fine Mars eraser pen. This treatment reduced the creases without overly flattening the canvas, respecting its draped fabric appearance.