Puppet Person

Here is my 2D puppet drawing. Why a 2D puppet you might ask? I don't know. However, like other puppet figures, mine moves about unpredictably, hands waiving and then suddenly still again. Well, perhaps that only happens if you stare at it long enough.....(remember the famous etching of the head of Christ, his eyes closed, a linen cloth draped in the background area? His eyes open, so I was told, if you stare at it long enough.....)
I had been reading the Kenneth Gross book called Puppet, an essay on uncanny life, which talks about our willingness to bring something as inanimate as a puppet to life. Further, we breathe life into many other objects as well - typically - our house, our cars, and our boats. We name these things and we even talk to them: "Come on Fred (the car), I'm late for work!" But, the puppet as uncanny, as seemingly supernatural, can reenact stories about our world with an existential innocence. We agree to believe in that innocence because the puppet seems child-like, a diminutive substitute for the child we once were. "The puppet is without history, existing in the moment...." The puppet comes briefly to life because we want it to do so. We want to go along with the world that the puppet seems to invent for himself and the audience. And, we especially agree to allow feelings to freely emerge as we participate from a safe distance from the puppet stage. This pact that we have made with mysterious, inanimate objects, regardless of their short lived time span, helps as to recognize our connectedness to everything. The differences between living things and inanimate objects are indeed minimal. Just ask a physicist.