Puppets' Characters

I thought that the Hiroshima Maidens made by the American puppet artist Dan Hurlin in 2004 were really cool. He used broken-eggshell shapes for the heads to represent young woman disfigured by th atomic bomb. I found this to be fasinating because who would think of broken egg shells to represent people. I think it makes perfect sense i mean the egg shape would almost make it look like a bomb that was broke which is what the atomic bomb was. The purpose of these puppets was to demonstrate the damage and mutilation caused by the atomic bomb. Their traits were basically mishappen girls as the result of the atomic bomb.

I also thought this was kind of cool because back in middle school we put on a mock trial for my history class, and our topic was the bombing of Hiroshima. I was a witness and i was suppose to be a Japenese survivor of the atomic bomb. I had to have a whole ton of paste aplied to my face to make me look really mishapen. I thought that it was a different and unique technique to use broken egg shapes to represent the damage. I just felt a personal connection to this type of character.