Up and Coming...

The head for my Dio de los Muertos rod puppet!

Anansi the Spider

Shadow Puppets

I created a rendition of the traditional Ashanti

African folk tale of "Anansi and his Six Sons."

It was performed to a slightly longer than 3 minute

voice track retelling of the story (me with a pretend

African accent haha), with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Special thanks to Kevin for helping me perform and Vika for

helping me photograph these difficult to capture shadows.

Anansi.

3 of Anansi's 6 sons:

See Trouble, Road Builder, River Drinker.

The other 3:

Game Skinner, Stone Thrower, Cushion.

An interpretive representation of Nyame,

God of All Things.

Fish, who ate Anansi,

along with his skinned counterpart.

My absolute favorite part of the performance.

Falcon, who flew away with Anansi in his beak.

Spider family on the web.

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