After eight days of roaming the Tokyo Disney Parks and a day of navigating the subways and wandering the streets of Tokyo, we are now sitting in the terminal waiting to board our plane and be homebound. Our nine-hour flight leaves at 10:00 this evening and arrives early afternoon tomorrow (local time). We are exhausted but inspired to go back to the studio and practice what we’ve discovered and learned.
Signing our work
In our shop we often sign our work. Our ‘signatures’ are not our names but rather little items carved into the finished pieces. These signings are often subtle and tucked away where only we know where to find them.
As Matt and I explored the DisneySea masterpiece, we located a few of these. This ‘signature’ was hidden in plain sight in a back alley of the park tucked behind a tree, where only a few guests would venture. The crossed mason’s trowel and pointing tool were carved into a lintel over a tiny window filled in with brick.
We understand the pride and skill with which this whole project was endowed, and we salute you!
Matts wall
We are rightly proud of the awesome woodgrains that Matt loves to carve in our shop. He is a master of the craft after all. Matt is in heaven at DisneySea, for there are so many wonderful woodgrains to admire and learn from. Just outside the new Fantasy Springs entrance is a massive ‘wood timber’ retaining wall that measures over thirty feet tall by sixty feet wide. The timbers are hand-sculpted concrete, similar to the work we regularly do in our shop. Over the last days, Matt and I have taken well over a hundred detailed shots of various sections and have carefully analyzed and discussed how we think they achieved this masterpiece of sculpting. The amazing thing is that as we geeked out of this work, it was so convincing that hundreds of regular guests walking by simply ignored it.
