I suppose puppet making often begins by just gathering stuff. Materials that I find attractive, you know, wood and sticks and wire and leaves and flowers, petals, like bits of broken electronics. Things that have already had a life are lovely to have in puppets. And then, from there you just start improvising, you know, it's like making music, you just see where it leads you. I stick and sculpt and keep scraping and putting things together and shaping things and suddenly what was just stuff becomes this character looking back at you. What I love about stop motion puppets is that they have this inherent sadness about them. They're like little actors that only ever get to play one role. Everything they do it their swan song. They have a tiny little life and then they just go back to being inanimate objects again.