I met up with Chaboo artist Megan Scheminske today at Pistils Nursery on Mississippi to work on her chaboo.  Many of you may recognize her from her participation in PULSE, a local charity art thingy.  Here she is with her painting.  Her hair is no longer blonde so you may no longer recognize her.

She was trained to paint with oils but is struggling with the idea of switching to a less toxic medium.  Curiously, she has no sense of smell and she is afraid that she cant truly sense the toxicity of what is around her.  Hmm… the struggles of eco vs performance.  For some reason the best stuff has to be bad for you- chocolate, rib eye steak, oil paints…. In my upside down universe ice cream, beer, and pork belly would all be good for you and cheap.

Her idea originally was to do something out of local materials.  I ran into her a few weeks ago and somehow our conversation then inspired her to steer towards live plants.

I am going to recess that glass mini-ecosystem thing into the chaboo body and attach those mushroom to the sides as shelves for airplants.  Airplants are these strange plants that dont require any soil-  you can just put em anywhere like stuffed animals.  Megan will then paint the chaboo to accompany the living elements.  Fun fun fun!

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