Thirteen monuments in the city centre of Porto Alegre were selected and the emplacement of their missing inscription panels was measured out. A special branding iron was made for them, the shape of which took on a pattern from the pavement.
A particular challenge was that some of the monuments were under the administration of the federal government, others of the city. Adair Gass, who was working for the Goethe Institute at the time, was great at negotiating with the authorities. She knew how not to jeopardise the project by not disclosing that the monotypes contained horse testicles and tail hair.