Lost was a marionette performance workshopped at the 2017 O’Neill National Puppetry Conference. The marionette was built as a personal project during an apprenticeship at the Puppet Kitchen with the assistance of Eric Wright and Michael Shupbach. The original performance was in front of a live audience and was recreated and recorded at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.
Puppeteer/Builder: Keely Snook
Choreographer: Phillip Huber
Photographer and Videographer: Walker Esner
The End is Near is an ongoing puppet project featuring a diverse set of awkward, yet ultimately lovable, characters.
Large Marge was part of the Boondocks Film Society’s Pee Wee’s Big Adventure event. Established by Jeff Palfini and Cindy Heslin, Boondocks Film Society is a nonprofit pop-up film event series that expands the bounds of film programming in Northwest Connecticut, and spotlights some of the area’s top creative talent, including filmmakers, musicians, poster artists, chefs, mixologists, sculptors, puppeteers and more.
Herself was an exploration of the social and cultural pressures that influence definitions of self. Through the use of dolls as an autobiographical medium, I invented multiple characterizations of myself that dealt with the socialization of gender, adolescence, and the gawkiness of puberty. Ultimately, through the process of deconstructing specific aspects of my experience, I hope to better understand the negotiation between the concept of self and the artificial constructions that aim to define it.
The Puppet Genitals were commissioned by “Burt Murder,” a Pine Plains, NY based band. Rocking a wacky camp-drag persona, “Burt Murder” makes lo-fi, experimental dance pop.
Wall Monster was donated to the California State University, Chico Art Department as a contribution for their 2018 fundraising event, Alumni 10 10 20. Created by David Barta in 2008, students are given a 10”x 10” panel and asked to create an original piece within it’s boundaries. While in most 10 10 20 events the panels are sold for $20, during the Alumni event the pieces were auctioned off.
This finger puppet was an experiment used to test the flexibility and durability of Cosclay.
In 2018, I made a wall mounted monster for an auction to raise money for my undergraduate art program. During quarantine, the friend who won used the monster to talk to her two and a half year old nephew on Zoom. He came to love it so much that she requested I make a matching baby monster to send to her nephew in Scotland. Proof that puppets bring people together. Now they each have their own Rainbow Monster.
