23/03/2026
Happy World Puppetry Day
Funny to post this literally a few months after attempting to retire from building puppets on commission (seriously) ! After my exhibition last year of personal artwork I was intending to focus in that direction for the coming future, and do less work for film & theatre.
But the problem with puppets is they always attract nice people doing interesting projects!
So I agreed to make this complicated dog puppet for
But on one condition- not to work alone. And thank the puppet spirits that Noor Sanders agreed to come on board. They took on the complicated process of designing/ assembling the fully moveable legs & agreed to come back at the end to help with assembly and applying the delicate paper-thin bark as fur.
Noor unfortunately was not in the studio on the day Teis .nl filmed, that’s why it conveniently looks like I’ve done all the work myself 😉😉
Good luck, David and
Don’t forget to feed and walk him!
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