The Secret Lives of Puppets

This video is my latest stop motion- a companion piece to the physical object of my Puppets and Prosthetics final project. The assignment was “The Secret Lives of Puppets,” and my goal was to have the cloth move while still on the loom as a sort of past life to the eventual fate of the [...]

Read Full Post »

Narrative: Memory Cloth and Projection

Last night was the final weaving crit for the semester, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I guess I had been looking at the cloth for so long with frustration, that I just assumed everyone else would be as frustrated as I was, and that was not the case. It just reminded [...]

Read Full Post »

Projecting Woven Narrative

I haven’t been talking a lot about weaving lately, mostly because I’ve been sorta stuck. My latest weaving assignment is a doublecloth pick-up project which describes a specific date and place through the use of imagery and choice of color. Essentially, this project is perfect for me. It’s narrative by nature and has few limitations, [...]

Read Full Post »

The Rabbit Wanderers

These are some stills from my latest Puppets and Prosthetics project, a stop motion shadow puppet show based on Carl Sandburg’s story, The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack Rabbits. Thematically, it follows my interest in lyrical or poetic storytelling and folktales. While I am usually accustomed to creating my own narratives, I thought this [...]

Read Full Post »