Today's experiment doesn't really look like much yet. I'm still playing around with ways to attach joints to puppets and make them move smoothly, but now I'm focused on three dimensional puppets instead of the flat shadow puppets from yesterday. I struggle with posting on days like this because sometimes experiments kinda look like nothing-even when they're very helpful

My first day of experimenting with puppet building focused on creating hand made hinges for shadow puppets. Getting the limbs of shadow puppets to move freely, but also stay together and controlled during a show can be an issue. I've had many discussions with other puppeteers at various workshops about solutions to this problem. The most common one I've

At the end of 2020, Arlene Thomas, Artistic Director of Puppets & Shadows Theatre, was one of 35 artists from the Region of Waterloo to receive a KW Microgrant through @patthedogpdc . She used the grant to spend a week doing an in depth exploration of puppet building techniques. She also documented her experiments on Facebook and Instagram, but we