Last weekend I was so grateful I was able to escape Chicago for a lil over 24 hours to support my dear friend's Art Show. It. Was. EVERYTHING! You hear me. EVERYTHING. I related so hard with Moose. He made these life size puppets with his hands, Moose , from scratch and created an experience that made me think he had been a fly on the wall watching my experience coming of age from child to teen. The transformation, the shedding of layers.. the freedom, imagination and innovation that seem to exist. The point that I felt some of that was taken away for Moose, for myself. And then light shifting as I consumed more and more media and i became more inhibited and less free. That's what I saw in these puppets. In these vignettes. The lighting, the shadows. The TV scenes literally in the puppet's head, what I saw looking into their eyes by the end was what was being fed to them reflected back out. Nothing like the vibrancy that existed in the scenes flying in the sky, listening to records making a masterpiece on the walls... Hmm Yeah. When @jamesnwelchart shows this work again somewhere you gotta go. If the positioning of the puppet on the floor surrounded by all the things and listening to the record player while being an amazingly vibrant being, wasn't a snapshot from a free fully self expressed moment from my young life ... Mmm. I dunno. Anyway. I'm babbling. But I loved it. Thank you friend. And thanks for showing me your studio. And thank you @alysha.griffin for everything you do and the rock you are for this man I love and care for. I can see your support and energy when I see this show and when I see y'all together. <3 I can't stop thinking about this.