Spirit Cage

Puppetry and Performing Objects

Laser Cut 1/8" Plywood | 18” x 30” x 18” | December 2023

A cam driven puppet of a dragon made for my Puppetry & Performing Objects Final. I researched and designed the mechanism from scratch by studying existing automata.
The spirit cage is a device from my worldbuilding project that captures spirits, and only works if the movement of the cranky perfectly mimics the grace of the spirit it is modelled after.