Month 11 — Run for the Hills
May they all run, the wild and the tame, into the hills; may they all run away from us, never to be seen again.
(Poseable paper puppets made of hand-dyed paper, with silver brad paper fasteners at the joints. Each figure is between 18” - 24” long. This composition was made on our basement wall, but I had to Photoshop out the wall and replace with a nice stock image. This particular composition is approximately 7’ long, but the figures can be recombined in any number of ways.)
Month 11 — Run for the Hills
I think I’ve come to a conclusion—I don’t like making crafts. I like crafting techniques and materials, but apparently doing things on repeat will make me not enter my studio space. Like making 9 jointed paper wolves.
Last month I made a jointed donkey which I loved, so I assumed I would love making these. I was wrong. I don’t know why. Yes, the puppets are complex, but not overly taxing mentally or manually. I can do them. They look cool. They’re crazy fun to play with. But after the third wolf I was like, I get it, this is boring, can I do something else now?
Here is another thing I am learning: these days I dislike permanency. I like things to be movable, changeable, unfixed in space and time. I don’t know what has changed in me to make me only want to make pieces that are flexible. I have no interest in a piece being permanently in one state.