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[ohani]

Styrofoam is a terribly uncoopertive whittling medium.

There, now you know.

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[curioustwibbit]

I was just reading an article about an artist who made work by stepping through giant white sheets of styrofoam wearing boots dipped in paint thinner, which dissolved the strofoam and made art and possibly noxious fumes.

Out of curiosity, what are you whittling out of styrofoam?

[ohani]

Pomegranate blossom.

That sounds . . . carcinogenic indeed. Certain brands of spray paint do the same thing, and make sizzling holes of gummy toxicity.

[curioustwibbit]

Ooh! Why?

Also, I remember that about spray paint-- it nearly ruined my mission project when I was in 4th grade.

[ohani]

Because I ordered shelves and they came with about 8 times their volume in styrofoam. And, I like the flowers. They have thick, red sepal-stars that foreshadow the fruit to come, and tissue-thin petals that always look wrinkly. I generally like fruit-blossoms because they bud right off the tree branches.

Not that what I made looks anything like that, mind.

I never did a mission project.

[inkwraith]

I must concur.

[ohani]

Using something other than a box-cutter might have helped too.