Today my work will be featured on a segment of a television show called “Artful”, produced by Monument tv. It will air at 8 am MST and then again at 1 pm on the BYU tv channel, and then it will be available for streaming after that on the BYU TV website. While I haven’t yet seen it myself, the other episodes are beautifully and sensitively done, and my experience with the production team was truly delightful and meaningful. I hope that you will have a chance to take a look.
Prairie Creek Dining Table in white oak and black walnut.
Red Elm window sill and shelf moving from rough to smooth.
and being joined longways.
Obed Edom is getting his finishing touches.
A test print is pulled to see what needs adjusting.
John Beartrist Laceroot is stirring.
Jonas is free from his box and wondering if it could be time to tell his story again.
Clive Hicks Jenkins has posted the second part of an interview with me about The School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theater here. Thank you Clive.
I have completed and installed four different pages about puppetry for The School of the Transfer of Energy. The main page is under the work heading, hover over it and there are three additional pages, including drawings, and the script for The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot. I hope you enjoy them, and thank you for visiting.
Mystichearingus Wolf and Walking Man, 2011
John Beartrist Laceroot is a tree with branches on his arms and a leaves on his head, photo by Annie Stone
The battle with Ultraprecarious Cathartes Aura
The battle with Ultraprecarious Cathartes Aura, photo by Annie Stone
The End of the Valley, guitar, accordion, fiddle and banjo.
If you are having trouble viewing the slideshow try clicking the post title to go directly to the post. -jack
I am building a new group of pages for The School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theater. In the meantime here are a few pictures as an appetizer.
John Beartrist Laceroot enjoying the sunrise
The paper kestrel
My son asked, “can you get that little man down?” He sits on a shelf in my workshop.
When I wanted to be a ventriloquist my Granddad guided me in building this fellow.
He is very good at yelling and being surprised.
Simple but effective pivoting jaw and head, and swinging limbs.
Here is a grouping of photos of some of the puppets that students made in a recent puppetry workshop.
In preparation for a short workshop I will be doing on paper puppet construction in July, I have been partially building a few paper folk.
The paper man, possibly a Russian Jonah.
Below is a small puppet of a red-bellied woodpecker. This fellow has a minor role at the end of part one of the play The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot, performed by The School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theater. It is carved from red cedar and is operated by a system of strings, weights and elastic.
Here is a view of the mechanics on the reverse side. He opens his mouth and flaps his wing.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 