Standing, and on your shoulders the shoulders of giants...or something like that.

A few of the aforementioned puppets.
From left to right, Mother Jones, MLK, Cesar Chavez, A. Philip Randolph, The Woman who Outshone the Sun, Ralph Bunch, and the almost-finished Fear.

An insane amount of delicate work goes into making giant puppets, and here Maryann, the program director for the community puppets, continues that work.


There are so many amazing puppets to wear, carry, and otherwise bring to life!


And finally, last but certainly not least, is Fear. Poor old Fear here was a very early construction for Matrix, and, I am told, has always been a very difficult piece to work with. Even after an initial father-and-son buildathon to give Fear his first real body, I have still had to rebuild that body twice to get it to balance Fear's massive head. The hand pictured here, however, is supasweet and was constructed by the very odd (for me to see) pairing of Matrix executive director Shaun nethercott and Athena (though the lion's share of the construction was all athena).


Being around these pieces now and having worked on constructing and paper macheing them in the past really makes me happy, and i have high hopes for saturday.