Solitary and self-sufficient, the Woodcutter is possessed of the ineffable quality — a kind of projectability — that can make puppets profound and delicate vessels for embodying human ...

They poke their heads out of a warren on Hamlin Avenue and take orders, then retreat into their sugar hole; a few minutes later, a human being brings you food. The Sugar Hole puppets are an ...

Human and puppet limbs are entwined, and there is a sense, both comforting and disconcerting, of a group-individual, like the shadowy figures who merge with the dark in Goya’s Black Paintings.