babette_grunwald

I want to tell stories with the ephemera that I create by giving it a history that it did not have before. By conceptualizing and designing entire worlds there is so much opportunity for incorporating all of the aspects of my own interests including Fiber Arts, Costume Design, Book Arts, History, Science, Myth, and Puppet Design. The more I discovered about different mediums the last couple of years the more truthfully that I have come to understand and describe my own personal narratives. I have always felt that there is more to the world than what we collectively acknowledge and for me the stories about spaces other than the ones we normally allow ourselves to inhabit are the richest and most stimulating landscape for our lives. There is something ethereal and otherworldly about the animation of stop-action motion and for me it makes it all really come alive. For thousands of years puppets have been used in cultures all over the world to represent us, and our humanity. Although not human, puppets provide a more profound understanding and connection to our own humanity.