Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 9
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 8
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 7
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 6
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 5
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 4
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 3.
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 2
Yin Mou Gui Ji (final): Set 1.
An Excerpt from: Puppets and Performing Objects
“The beginning of serious rehearsals for devised work starts with play. Play with bodies and objects, words and music. Once bodies and voices are loosened and ready, anything lying around the rehearsal room becomes fuel for the work. So it is quite a good play for the person who is going to be designing and making the props and puppets to make sure the things lying around the place bear some relevance to the subject matter of the work. It will soon become clear that some of the stuff is used in the daily work, while some is tried and rejected. The refining process that will create the actual prop will be based on the rehearsal process and the way the prop’s meaning will be read by the audience.
There is usually an underlying joke in this sort of improvisation that keeps the working atmosphere buoyant and good-humored. It helps to dispel any over-analytical tendencies which are best kept to sessions at the beginning and end of the working day as they tend to weigh down the flights of invention. The work is concentrated and intense, like all good play; it needs to burst out into laughter or the whole thing starts to internalize, with the accompanying danger of forgetting that it is all for an audience and not an intellectual or therapeutic exercise.”
-Tina Bicat, Puppets and Performing Objects: A Practical Guide
“1. Pretend-Senior-Thesis idea: become a 16th century Ming Dynasty Traveling Salesman (except be a wizard, not a salesman).
2. That thing is lightweight and collapsible! The outer cages move into the center, shelves fold up and the canopy drops down- You could carry the whole thing on your back! Incredible! A bunch of finches and some bamboo? Practically weighs nothing!”
Jixing’s Tree, in transit, from Lijiang to Kunming.
Progress on my plant.
I liked what Jixing said about “continuing its growth,” so I eventually ended up following that direction, tying different local botanical specimens to the leftover branch-nubbins.
I put the covers on the “Nirvana” Book (The Sketchbook Project).
At first they bowed outwards, so I tried to fix them by gluing sheets on the insides of the covers, but now they bow inwards.
“Blaq-book”: More updates of selected pages.
