We are a wee puppet studio that makes, writes, scores, develops, performs and films puppet flicks. That sounds a little grand. In reality we have only really made 1 film so far, and a puppet opera which actually was never intended for the camera! But now we are hooked on this puppet film genre, and we will continue. WE WILL CONQUER! Conquer what? Hummm… new territory. Or maybe old. More likely a mix-the ancient art of puppetry, century-old optical compositing, and a computer to make it all go digital. As you surely know, behind the scenes is where the real show goes on, the thoughts and plans and endless work and dreams and destruction…. It is a contribution of every element that forms together in one way or another and morphs into the final product. All of the elements, planned and not planned, participate.  Internal turmoil participates. External forces, changes in weather and government and the bank account- these things enter the picture too, contributing in some way.  That is art, the harnessing of the elements, of some of them or of all of them, and combining item together with one’s own input, and then trying to capture the whole of the expression. even the greatest works of art could not be called complete expressions the artist’s will. We are not so free, none of us. I suppose you can call this bit about harnessing those elements the creative process- the way in which you fit those pieces together and what you hope will result from it. That sounds vague in a way, and perhaps it is. The way I see it, you can’t really understand your own creative process until after the fact. Once you see an effect, you have greater awareness of the cause. But maybe Steve Jobs already summed it up:  ‘Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.’ –– S. Jobs Of course, he made computers.  And money. We make puppet films.  And… well… never mind.  Please subscribe. I promise that the majority of my blogs won’t be so ‘mystical’ ha ha ha!  promises promises Back to the drawing board, Kristin