If you'd like to build your own Stone Fly, please go to Making Your Own Stone Fly.

The Loving Couple from the upcoming "The Ugly Bug Ball"

My most recent marionette is Baleey a Yellow Neck Caterpillar. He was designed and built by me for the upcoming video "The Ugly Bug Ball" - The Caterpillar Marionette"

In 2006 Sheila Wyne, an Anchorage Alaska visual artist, created a sculpture using scythe handles. The combining of these curved wooden handles looked to me like a spider. I became inspired to build my first insect puppet. In his first outing in . He was a hit with audience young and old.

"Claudette", the praying mantis, came about after a conversation with my costumer and fellow puppeteer Tammy Sitar. Check out the video.

One evening I went to listen to the Boduin String Quartet at the Performing Arts Center. While listening to Shotakovich's String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 83: III. Allegretto I had a clear vision of butterflies. The results was a marionette play with Claudette and The Butterfly that we called "A classic eco struggle".

While in Homer, Alaska doing a marionette workshop with Brian Hutton, I met a young couple who had been working in the circus in Italy. While having a beer at the local tavern they began to tell me of a Spanish playwrite who had written plays for marionettes. But more specifically, insect marionettes. After reading Federico Garcia Lorca's "The Butterfly's Evil Spell", I was certain that this was my next project. The Scorpion is a main character, who is alot of fun. For a video of his first workout please click here.

"Sylvia"

Dona ProudBeetle

"Dona ProudBeetle and Sylvia"