At the Restorative Art Technical Showcase, Saldivar and his fellow contestants had the opportunity to put their highly particular talents to the test. The showcase was conceived at a critical moment for restorative art, whose future has never looked more uncertain amid a changing funeral industry. Of restorative art specifically, she had this to say:Alas, poor Yorick! The textbook ditched the demisurgery label for the more genteel “restorative art,” the term by which the practice is still known. “Real restorative art isn’t done on plastic heads, for medals, in a game-show setting.