Anger Puppets and others...(2025 - )

The artist Mike Kelley said of handmade toys: “I think they are unconscious projections of the maker.” 

These paper puppets are made from prints made with a gel pad and various homemade and found stamps.

While they appear twee and playful they spring from a serious place; a part of me that is enthralled to act on its most immediate and reactive desires. The Anger Puppets (red hats) are acknowledgements of my usually shrouded and shameful desire to cause pain to those that have hurt me, even in the pettiest of matters. 

The puppets take many forms and enable different aspects of the “uglier” parts of me, but the common thread is that they are always strictly on my side. They are friends and pillars in the darkest of times.