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    • About
      • About Doug
      • Art Biography
      • Theater Biography
    • Visual Art
      • Bearded Works
      • Off the Wall Series
      • iCandy
      • Mandola Art
      • Low Brow
      • Folk Art Series
      • Men Rrrr Dogs
      • The Embrace Series
      • Figurative Works
      • Quick Sculputes
    • Conceptual Art
      • Frosting Series
      • Ox-Herding Pictures
      • Sleeping Beauty Series
    • Theater
      • Tohubohu! Extreme Theatre
      • SHIFT
      • Memory is a Strange Thing
      • Dive #1
      • Split
      • 2 Be or Not 2 Be
      • Yes And Out of the Box
      • Invisible Theater
      • Arboretum
      • Tiny Boxes
      • University Productions
    • Publications
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  • Home
  • About
    • About Doug
    • Art Biography
    • Theater Biography
  • Visual Art
    • Bearded Works
    • Off the Wall Series
    • iCandy
    • Mandola Art
    • Low Brow
    • Folk Art Series
    • Men Rrrr Dogs
    • The Embrace Series
    • Figurative Works
    • Quick Sculputes
  • Conceptual Art
    • Frosting Series
    • Ox-Herding Pictures
    • Sleeping Beauty Series
  • Theater
    • Tohubohu! Extreme Theatre
    • SHIFT
    • Memory is a Strange Thing
    • Dive #1
    • Split
    • 2 Be or Not 2 Be
    • Yes And Out of the Box
    • Invisible Theater
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    • Tiny Boxes
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Memory is a Strange Thing

Lately I have been introducing puppets into my theatrical works. In the case of “Memory is a Strange Thing” a collaborative with Marianne Sharp, I was less interested in bringing the puppet or horse headpiece to life, but more interested in the psychology projected onto objects. Why do we construct these objects that get loaded with meaning when they end up compartmentalizing our live?  The highly fetishized symbol of a house or a horse end up being cages. We give our lives over to these past memories and future ideals to the point of being disabled. Yet through the acknowledgment of this pattern and the enactment of a moving ritual there is a sense of liberation. In this case the theatrical display becomes sacred ritual.





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