File puptcrit/puptcrit.0708, message 210


From: =?Windows-1252?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:31:38 -0400
Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppetry conspiracy


Ever wonder what brought you to Puppetry?
Ever wonder why or how?
Still wonder without explanation? dig into your past...

Maybe yu'll see clues thatthere is a conspiracy to bring you into the puppet side.
Share you paranoia with us, please.

Here's mine:

The more I remember my childhood and what I did, the more I rewatch the old movies and tv series I watched as a kid, the more I realise puppetry has been brainwashing me ALL MY LIFE so that I would join the ranks.

My mother tells me I destroyed most of my stuffed animals, as a very young kid, in an attempt to improve them and turn them into puppets (mostly marionnettes). It must be true, but I don't remember those. I do remember years later, when I killed my favorite plush animal, King Kong, first turning him into a marionette (unsatisfiying, discarded the project) then cutting out his rubber face to make a mask (didn't fit me, at 3 inches high, but somehow I had not anticipated that problem....)

I had many creature building projects...
But I was a technically challenged individual most of my youth, lacking in almost everything but interest and enthusiasm.
I made so many mistakes I felt like quitting everyday, which I vowed to, but never could bring myself to.
Somehow, I was always back at work very quickly.

I wasn't pursuing puppetry in any conscient way, it seemed I was always drawn to it nonetheless, when I look at my box of failed parts.
You see, I was always starting new creature projects, but they ended up failed attempts, for lack of knowledge and basic training, but with parts that just had to be salvaged "for later". My very first complete puppet was started from a very failed head that I could not bring myself to throw away, even if I hated it. Strange that it became, many years later,  the armature for one of my best heads ever!  Even that puppet I didn't plan to make into a puppet, at first. This puppet was the single creation that convinced a puppet company to give me my first chance at creating for a puppet show. No matter what I did, it led me to puppetmaking, and more recently, puppeteering.

Puppetry is the only way I can evenually bring all my interests (addictions) into a single creation/performance.


The Force may be in all things, but the Puppet Force is there as well, beckoning for more of itself to be manifested.
Maybe it has some influence over human births as well, placing an order for puppet nuts to come into being...
Or it's like a demon, posessing the creative...

Brainwashed or not, I am glad I am, and love it!
Ever lives Puppetry!



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