Puppet Workshop
Puppet Workshop Documented Process:
“Incarnation of the Imagination”
1. (Find a Place)
A. Black chair in right wall aisle to sit alone facing other possibilities allowing a more open feeling.
R. Under a table, trapped, wondering about Icarus, the power of the sun ... the artist.
2. (Paper & Thread)
A. Ocean. The paper was an ocean and following my intuition created a figure with many thoughts but one longer thread gave the feeling of a single thought and one long thread on the head created the perspective of looking far to horizon. I placed the figue on the vast ocean.
R. Boxcar Bob. Being a hobo in a train wandering the world listening to songs just like Bob Dylan.
3. (Add a paper cup)
A.Tore the paper as waves transformed into many thoughts and as the figure entered the cup I wanted a window to follow thoughts but to make a window took so much work. Finally I had a hole a place for thoughts to enter.
R It’s a sky train to ring the bell of freedom so rain, tears and dreams fall.
Selected Materials: A. rope, toilet paper, shoe. R: box & bells.
4. Listen to AeRan’s story of ocean of thoughts desiring to follow a simple thread thought.
5. Decision: We will create something together collect materials from the Airbnb room. Shoes, peach coverings, plastic container, toilet paper, popsicle sticks, thread and piri. The story will be about the figures meeting. A horizontal journey + a vertical journey.
Session Two
Make large puppet, boat, ocean, small figure & bell thread. Borrow felt, scissors, box cutter.
7. Share our stories back and forth until ThoughtThreads emerges.
Alone a tiny figure in a boat sets out into the ocean of thoughts humming & voicing random words. She reaches a mountain giant. Or is it a sun god? There is no way further. She hears a sound. Is it a greeting? It sounds like a fragment of a song. Maybe she is just imagining a song. A single thread drops a bell down. Curiosity gets the better of her. She grabs hold and is lifted up, higher and higher till at the top two blue eyes stare at her. A sudden jolt lifts her even higher. A deep voiced song fills her simultaneously with fear and excitement. Shaken and about to fall she jumps reaching for a cloud which miraculously floats her gently back into the boat. Looking up she watches the thread bell drop down. She takes leave, returning home, feels the single thought thread tugging and connecting her to the mountain/sun/cloud ... ahh .. it is the spirit of nature she guesses. About to disembark she wonders was this all just a dream? She rings the bell and listens. Slowly, quietly, with full contemplation she creates a song of thanks to honour her thoughts.
Moral: “I’d like to take credit for creating unique and creative stories out of thin air but maybe it’s just my imagination”
A literary allusion:
Threadsuns
above the grayblack wastes.
A tree-
high thought
grasps the light-tone: there are
still songs to sing beyond
mankind.
Paul Celan, "Threadsuns" from BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: THE COLLECTED LATER POETRY A BILINGUAL EDITION by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris. Translation copyright © 2014 by Pierre Joris. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Blowing in the Wind
How many roads must a man walk down, before they call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand.
How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they are forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.
Bob Dylan
8. Write out process & select pictures.
Session Three
8. Roughly finish material construction. Lacks development & polish.
9. Present process.
10. Rehearse Story: Ocean Journey with humming & peri ---- mountain ascent/blowing in the wind ---- jou rney back with thread bell ---- song & narration
11. Presentations
12. Ending summary.
Note:: ... mountain echoes ...
“Incarnation of the Imagination”
1. (Find a Place)
A. Black chair in right wall aisle to sit alone facing other possibilities allowing a more open feeling.
R. Under a table, trapped, wondering about Icarus, the power of the sun ... the artist.
2. (Paper & Thread) A. Ocean. The paper was an ocean and following my intuition created a figure with many thoughts but one longer thread gave the feeling of a single thought and one long thread on the head created the perspective of looking far to horizon. I placed the figue on the vast ocean.
R. Boxcar Bob. Being a hobo in a train wandering the world listening to songs just like Bob Dylan.
3. (Add a paper cup)
A.Tore the paper as waves transformed into many thoughts and as the figure entered the cup I wanted a window to follow thoughts but to make a window took so much work. Finally I had a hole a place for thoughts to enter.
R It’s a sky train to ring the bell of freedom so rain, tears and dreams fall.
Selected Materials: A. rope, toilet paper, shoe. R: box & bells.
4. Listen to AeRan’s story of ocean of thoughts desiring to follow a simple thread thought.
5. Decision: We will create something together collect materials from the Airbnb room. Shoes, peach coverings, plastic container, toilet paper, popsicle sticks, thread and piri. The story will be about the figures meeting. A horizontal journey + a vertical journey.
Session Two
Make large puppet, boat, ocean, small figure & bell thread. Borrow felt, scissors, box cutter.
7. Share our stories back and forth until ThoughtThreads emerges.
Alone a tiny figure in a boat sets out into the ocean of thoughts humming & voicing random words. She reaches a mountain giant. Or is it a sun god? There is no way further. She hears a sound. Is it a greeting? It sounds like a fragment of a song. Maybe she is just imagining a song. A single thread drops a bell down. Curiosity gets the better of her. She grabs hold and is lifted up, higher and higher till at the top two blue eyes stare at her. A sudden jolt lifts her even higher. A deep voiced song fills her simultaneously with fear and excitement. Shaken and about to fall she jumps reaching for a cloud which miraculously floats her gently back into the boat. Looking up she watches the thread bell drop down. She takes leave, returning home, feels the single thought thread tugging and connecting her to the mountain/sun/cloud ... ahh .. it is the spirit of nature she guesses. About to disembark she wonders was this all just a dream? She rings the bell and listens. Slowly, quietly, with full contemplation she creates a song of thanks to honour her thoughts.
Moral: “I’d like to take credit for creating unique and creative stories out of thin air but maybe it’s just my imagination”
A literary allusion:
Threadsuns
above the grayblack wastes.
A tree-
high thought
grasps the light-tone: there are
still songs to sing beyond
mankind.
Paul Celan, "Threadsuns" from BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: THE COLLECTED LATER POETRY A BILINGUAL EDITION by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris. Translation copyright © 2014 by Pierre Joris. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Blowing in the Wind
How many roads must a man walk down, before they call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand.
How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they are forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.
Bob Dylan
8. Write out process & select pictures.
Session Three
8. Roughly finish material construction. Lacks development & polish.
9. Present process.
10. Rehearse Story: Ocean Journey with humming & peri ---- mountain ascent/blowing in the wind ---- jou rney back with thread bell ---- song & narration
11. Presentations
12. Ending summary.
Note:: ... mountain echoes ...
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