Understand the use of negative space in Wayang Kulit puppetry?.What might we use to attach a puppet’s elbow and shoulder joints?.How would you express facial features on black paper?.What do you think of the puppets’ faces? How do they make you feel?.
Most students create two puppets as a way of imagining an interaction between the two. They will also echo the disproportionate length and slim silhouette of the arms, using brass fasteners to create joints at the elbow and shoulder. They will not actually be placing these against a backlit screen instead, we will use orange or yellow paper to pretend the puppets are being backlit and better see the perforated designs. Students will attempt to recreate the same sense of the ornate, of the decorative, by using black card stock to perforate their own patterns and designs. It is how negative space is used against light that creates such ornate looks among the puppets. They observe not only the way in which the perforations express the puppets’ features, such as eyes, but also how they imply texture, and more abstractedly, a sense of elegance and reverence. Wayang Golek, the three-dimensional expression of the Javanese art form.Īs students explore this rich cultural tradition, they are guided to focus on the beautiful, elaborate costumes, and their artistically perforated designs.
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