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A cereal box, a blue ball thrower, a roll of tape, a plastic cup and a skewer on a timber table — A rubbish puppet

Encounter Four

Rubbish puppet

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Encounter Four

Rubbish puppet

Using Rubbish and Recyclable materials, create a ‘Rubbish Puppet’ character who has the form of ‘the unspeakable’.
Consider the different puppet forms (sock, string, stick) as you begin designing.
Keep the scale in proportion to your access to materials.
Let the form (e.g., humanoid, animal, plant, fungi, robotic) personify the nature of the unspeakable.

THE FORM

Spend some time identifying what is ‘unspeakable’ in your community, culture or the world at large.
The rubbish here already represents the things we refuse to acknowledge (and wish to have cleared away), but see if you can extend that into a personified form that punches your message home.
Once your puppet is complete, begin animating it by giving it kinds of movement and gesture.

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