In Gili’s case, the artist had a plan in mind for the mural, which would allow the final work to reflect the potential difficulties encountered to realise it. For example, even though the brighter colours were brought with him from abroad, the darker colours had to be made on site with whatever dark colours could be found in the city, not an easy task, given the hard times Venezuela was traversing economically in those years. Finally a leftover purple from an abandoned shop was used, and mixed with black ink to make an interesting black. Likewise, the unfinished, albeit balanced areas of his mural signal the beauty of a forced economy of means, subtly blending with other works on show.