I was going to write a manifesto but exhaustion hit me harder than I thought. Exhaustion of my life experiences by the way, not of the last ten days. (I got old fast in Canada.) Exhaustion does weird things to human psyche. It makes you aware that survival is more important than the fight when thin ...
Puppet Diaries No:4 – I finished it and I’m so exhausted I don’t even want to play…
Dear Diary, So I took the last version of the puppet to the class today and there were basically three type of reactions. There were people who most liked the skeleton version, the muscle version (also found the hands creepy and grotesque because they are out of scale);and also people who con ...
Puppet Diaries No: 3 – the puppet has taken over me…
Dear Diary, I have spend the entire - like the entire - weekend making the puppet. There were moments of existential crisis involved as it happens in all my puppet making and dissertation writing and playwriting processes. But since I have been through so many of them by now I just knew that it ...
Puppet Diaries No:2 – speaking of uncanny…
Dear Diary, I took the puppet to the class today. Amy liked it. Some other people liked it too. Here are some contortion poses Amy did with the puppet: I would die if I tried that. Another impossible pose... It doesn't even look easy on the puppet... The interesting thing is as I wa ...
Puppet Diaries No:1
This past two days have been very intense for me. I was not only introduced to a new field of knowledge but also was pretty intimidated by the well-known gap between my knowledge as a scholar and knowledge of the practitioners. It also made me – once again – aware of the fact that I have been educa ...