This is funny as I was thinking about how much energy you give to non-human life and to objects in your writing (I’ve been reading The Coiled Serpent and enjoying it v much). The environment has as much presence/agency as the characters, which feels like a very gothic thing, but is also quite familiar to me as my grandmother was a compulsive hoarder and related to the environment in this way. A lot of your stories remind me of visiting her house.
My favourite puppet theatre are the segments in ZZZap!, a 90's tv programme made for children and designed to be inclusive for the hearing impaired with no dialogue. You can find old episodes floating around.
There is also an obscure documentary about Christian puppet theatre people in America called Hands Of God which is a curious watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSFG_hZHiJQ
I love it when puppet shows are portrayed in literature. If you haven't read Joy Williams The Changeling, I sincerely recommend it. There's a small scene where the main character Pearl goes to a converted church and sees several children and possibly one pregnant woman performing quite a grotesque puppet show and it's one of the best portrayals, one of the funniest too, of amateur puppet theatre I've ever read.
Fascinating pondering and beautiful pics, mind blowing syntheses between iconography and Jewish and Hindu mysticism and others. The Bill and Cora Baird puppet museum was in my hometown in the US midwest. As a kid I thought they were just creepy, like how I later felt about Polish and Czech animation. This post and many of your stories make me think of the reincarnation of things - like the staff of Aaron, or the chariot of Ezekiel and the throne car of history that Henry Ford drew from. Our relationship to things, and to creating things, thanks for this in the dark of winter. https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/henry-ford-and-reincarnationhttps://anthonyted.medium.com/the-second-lives-of-things-82e8672c595c
This is funny as I was thinking about how much energy you give to non-human life and to objects in your writing (I’ve been reading The Coiled Serpent and enjoying it v much). The environment has as much presence/agency as the characters, which feels like a very gothic thing, but is also quite familiar to me as my grandmother was a compulsive hoarder and related to the environment in this way. A lot of your stories remind me of visiting her house.
My favourite puppet theatre are the segments in ZZZap!, a 90's tv programme made for children and designed to be inclusive for the hearing impaired with no dialogue. You can find old episodes floating around.
There is also an obscure documentary about Christian puppet theatre people in America called Hands Of God which is a curious watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSFG_hZHiJQ
just watched, wow. thank you!
I love it when puppet shows are portrayed in literature. If you haven't read Joy Williams The Changeling, I sincerely recommend it. There's a small scene where the main character Pearl goes to a converted church and sees several children and possibly one pregnant woman performing quite a grotesque puppet show and it's one of the best portrayals, one of the funniest too, of amateur puppet theatre I've ever read.
will get, sounds excellent!
Fascinating pondering and beautiful pics, mind blowing syntheses between iconography and Jewish and Hindu mysticism and others. The Bill and Cora Baird puppet museum was in my hometown in the US midwest. As a kid I thought they were just creepy, like how I later felt about Polish and Czech animation. This post and many of your stories make me think of the reincarnation of things - like the staff of Aaron, or the chariot of Ezekiel and the throne car of history that Henry Ford drew from. Our relationship to things, and to creating things, thanks for this in the dark of winter. https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/henry-ford-and-reincarnation https://anthonyted.medium.com/the-second-lives-of-things-82e8672c595c
That butter dish brings to mind "The Haunted Saucepan" by Margery Lawrence.
never read! going to find asap
Very cool! Thanks for the pictures.