Animated Stage Project

Task: to create a mobile "animated stage" which fits the following criteria: it is connected to the performer's body; it undergoes some kind of transformation; it involves puppetry of some kind.

My inspirations: the cuckoo clock, automata & 'mechanical theatre', Sharmanka (see link), medieval symbolist etchings & alchemy ...



The assemblage begins with a little help from my friends.



The basic stage is constructed and ready for some major embellishment.



Post-embellishment.



In the centre is a clock-type dial which will move, manipulated from behind, to reveal either a 'sun' or a 'moon'.



Depending on which symbol is revealed by the dial, a door will open.....on the left hand side, the sun, on the right hand side, the moon.



Finally, in the window within the window a little moving object will appear.





...conveniently operated from behind with the help of some wooden coffee stirrers.

Hoping to make a full costume and make my first entrance at Covent Garden in the near future.