… can be seen right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WieHF0r-q1k

The natural evolution of my photos of dolls (next to my obvious disenchantment with the commercial contemporary art market, and when one reaches a point like this I conclude it is silly trying to fight realities, one simply has to look for something what is more fulfilling) has brought me once more back to stop motion animation, or more precise: puppet trick film.

Further, there are only three animation artists I really admire, that stand very much out of the current bobble-headed comical creature animation craze with more substantial topics and style. They are Yuri Norstein, Jiří Trnka and 川本 喜八郎 Kihachiro Kawamoto. Each are world famous. If I would ask an audience of any work they have seen of either people would name pieces they created in their older age and not as twenty-somethings, that says something. Obviously to create a meaningful piece of art life experience is very useful. Lots to learn. By the way: at least the first two are famous for their rebellion against the system, whilst the last one famously so for a while was forced to go back to commercial making, as he had no money any more. Ways to go…

And because it is too beautiful, here a link to the homepage/studio of Yuri Norstein:

http://www.norsteinstudio.com/

So, since I find myself in the best company, let’s get started with making a first puppet, and once more this BLOG is going to be a production diary, which anyways is much more interesting than reading up on the disgruntled artist’s view on the art world as it maybe anyways always has been.

Step One: fabric. I have accumulated so far some fabric, because this puppet’s clothes will be from actual fabric and not like the dolls I used for the still photography so far, fabric assimilated by painted clay. And: as opposed to my Brassai-inspired prostitute photos these will be not in the harsh realism of black/white, instead in gaudi, cheerful colours, because the work I am planning to create will be based on a fairy tale, and fairy tales should be dreamy and colourful, at least this one I want to make that way.

The fabric to be used, or some of it, is right here:

Josiane Keller “fabric” (2015)