This was SUCH a challenging project — I spent so much time experimenting with different materials, had so many false starts. It worked out in the end! At first I was thinking maybe papier-mâché but ended up using modeling clay. I think papier-mâché would be so fun for puppets at a little bit larger scale though!
A miniature marionette, with the help of an amazing puppet-making book from the ’50s! Fully the most insane object I have ever attempted to make.
Human teeth, porcelain
When life surgically removes your wisdom teeth, you go to the studio and make yourself some more.
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” —The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Lately this enormous bug has been eating up all my studio time, hmmm. Oh, and I’m sick, and when I’m sick I get goofy.
