Bubble boy series:

“Bubble Boy and His Rooms” is both a collection of print collages and a stop-motion animation created in 2016. This series was inspired by the unexpected creation of the character Bubble Boy, a sympathetic, blubbering puppet who is solely contained to a series of never-ending flat rooms. In “Bubble Boy and His Rooms,” the protagonist is visited by another version of himself, and experiences love, heartache, as well as death in a state of limbo.

“Bubble Boy and the New World order,” is a collection of sets made from a variety of printmaking methods adhered or printed onto found, formed and sculpted three dimensional objects as well a 3-D stop-motion animation. In “Bubble Boy and the New World Order,” The viewer has a voyeuristic look into the dullness and genuinely pathetic nature of the protagonist’s existence.

häxan:

HÄXAN is a live shadow puppet performance by Grant Barbour and Johanna Winters that reimagines myths about witch trials and religious extremism in the 16th and 17th centuries in Germany, France and colonial America. Using vintage overhead projectors, Barbour and Winters performed a series of shadow vignettes that portrayed mythical, carnal, and absurd relationships between the devil, the accuser, and the accused. This ill-fated cast of characters moan, wail, seduce, and suffer in a spectacle of cut paper and cast shadows that are at once devastating and beautiful.

Designed and produced by Johanna Winters and Grant Barbour. Puppeteering by Johanna Winters, Grant Barbour, Tom Wixo, and Cora Lay.