Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 13:10:03 -0500
Subject: Re: was: Re: PUPT: Bruce Schwartz


At 02:31 AM 2/8/2002 EST, you wrote:
>There is nothing wrong with process. ;-)
>I'm an art therapist & I have had clients create & destroy to help work out 
>certain issues.  I've written about the aspects of eros & thanatos that come 
>up during the birthing of puppets that I've seen clients go through.  I've 
>recognized those energy forces myself - but I could never get myself to 
>deliberately destroy a puppet or doll that I have successfully completed.
But 
>I have destroyed during a uncompleted process before the puppet comes to 
>'life'.
>
>Wayong
>
The only thing wrong with the process re: Bruce is that it is so sad for
us.  Bruce came as close as any puppeteer I've known or met to having a
real touch of genius.  He may be enormously fulfilled by creating and
destroying his work, but _we_ are missing out on so much as a result.  (if
the story is true, and since Bruce "dropped out of sight", if you will, I
have heard about ten or so stories about what he was doing -- and who
knows, they might all be true)

Richard B. Johnson
Husband, Father, Grandfather, Puppeteer, Playwright, Writer,
Director, Actor, Thingmaker, Mormon, Person, Fool
I sometimes think that the last persona is the most important
http://www2.gasou.edu/commarts/puppet/
Georgia Southern University Puppet Theatre


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