I received a present! It’s a DVD of a puppet play 平太郎化物日記 “Heitaro Bakemono Nikki” , translating to “Heitaro’s monster diary” from Ayako Bando (Compagnie JIJO), the story in brief: the hero Heitaro is not afraid of monsters /ghosts (Japanese ghosts can take on unlimited shapes and abilities, you got to see it to believe it, Mid August, during the days of the dead, is a great time to explore); the ghost are doing their best to teach him respect; Koichi Iimuro /Atelier Minomushi  collaborated in this marionette play with project ITO.

平太郎化物日記   Heitaro Bakemono Nikki (2007)

The puppet show scenario and production is by Tengai Amano, [天野天街]
who also collaborated with Compagnie Isshi-za, too.

Link to 天野天街 Tengai Amano’s company web site  is here:

http://www.oujakan.jp/

For ITO project/ Heitaro bakemono nikki Tengai Amano 天野天街 made all non-human puppets and wrote the play.
Koichi made the human puppets in the puppet show: the hero Heitaro, another man, an old man and more.

The web link for it is http://itoayatsuri.com/

Here the full poster to the production, which is wild in itself:

平太郎化物日記 heitaro bakemono nikki – poster (2007)

The puppets in this play are wild, to say the least, again: you have to see it to believe it…..

Meanwhile my own project is growing, I am working on Alexander’s mom, Laila.

Here is Laila’s head and left hand:

Josiane Keller “Laila’s head and left hand” (2016)

And here you see a larger test print of one of Vincent’s portrait shots (but the final prints should be even larger scale):

Josiane Keller “holding a photo of Vincent” (2016)