"I should have would thought this was your work," Dan says, entering the workroom with some slabs of balsam. "It looked carved by claws."
Dan, by contrast, is quite at home and confident in the work floor with his woodworking tools. His most recent work has been prepping Christmas gifts for people, which at this point has mostly gone into carving intricate keepsake boxes - personal, because they're handmade, but not an imposition on anyone and not anything so personal as to be uncomfortably, forcedly intimate. He's made one for Miguel, but he's made one for almost everyone at the Pole.
He sets the balsam down and starts to set up his own workstation, which is partially a woodworking setup and partially a craft studio for sewing and sketching and whatever other artistic pursuit Dan's decided to throw himself into that day. That he gravitates towards tailoring and woodwork is obvious based on the volume of tools and fabric swatches, but there's a little bit of everything. The yetis let Dan have run of the place and the elves mostly ignore his materials because he's left a decoy out for them, a repurposed cat toy with a ball and a bell that he leaves pieces of candy in for the elves to entertain themselves with.
"Are you planning on painting those?" Dan thinks of the beautiful painted wooden animals in Oaxaca and wonders if that particular artisanal tradition made it to Nueva York. He hopes it did. It's always a shame to see culture squelched to progress, lost to time.
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Dan, by contrast, is quite at home and confident in the work floor with his woodworking tools. His most recent work has been prepping Christmas gifts for people, which at this point has mostly gone into carving intricate keepsake boxes - personal, because they're handmade, but not an imposition on anyone and not anything so personal as to be uncomfortably, forcedly intimate. He's made one for Miguel, but he's made one for almost everyone at the Pole.
He sets the balsam down and starts to set up his own workstation, which is partially a woodworking setup and partially a craft studio for sewing and sketching and whatever other artistic pursuit Dan's decided to throw himself into that day. That he gravitates towards tailoring and woodwork is obvious based on the volume of tools and fabric swatches, but there's a little bit of everything. The yetis let Dan have run of the place and the elves mostly ignore his materials because he's left a decoy out for them, a repurposed cat toy with a ball and a bell that he leaves pieces of candy in for the elves to entertain themselves with.
"Are you planning on painting those?" Dan thinks of the beautiful painted wooden animals in Oaxaca and wonders if that particular artisanal tradition made it to Nueva York. He hopes it did. It's always a shame to see culture squelched to progress, lost to time.