The things I do for my chaboo artists…..  In this case, Meg Scheminske is doing a chaboo with plant life all over it and I reached for the good ol power tools to make these mushrooms fit better against the chaboo.

beltsanding a mushroom from Ken Tomita on Vimeo.
Has anyone beltsanded a mushroom before?  It works quite well actually.  Just make sure the mushroom is thoroughly dried out and get a death grip on it.  Kinda dangerous cause its totally freehand…

This particular chaboo collaboration has been fun because we have worked together on it conceptually and in a practical sense by visiting the nursery.  I took over on the woodworking, routing out holes for the terrariums where I pleased.  They are spherical actually so 1/3 of it hangs underneath- pretty cool.  I then attached the mushrooms as I felt right.  Next, Meg took over and she reacted to what I had done through painting.

Pretty killer if you ask me….  but now, im nervous about keeping the plants alive.  I have the magic touch with dogs and building stuff but not with plants.  They always die on me.  Someone help~

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