"On Mr. Schumann's side, the room is the equivalent of a Bread and Puppet atelier, filled with white, shrouded totemic figures on the verge of being animated. On the walls dunces cry slogans in cartoon balloons, "Thou Shalt Eliminate Evil" and "Coffeetables Unite Against Junk Mail." In the center is a machine that looks like a waterwheel or a torturer's rack but actually makes wind sounds for theatrical effect."
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times The installations by Peter Schumann in "Show People: Downtown Directors and the Play of Time," at Exit Art through Aug. 17.
(nytimes: arts)
:: comment :: . . . have always loved Bread&Puppet . . . ever since the days i met them in europe at a festival in Bonn where their grace and simplicity belied the actual complexity of meaning . . . the joy of large figures dancing with the wind was inspiring . . . to this day i make puppets & masks due in large measure to the Schumann creed . . .
Thoughts, wrote Nietzsche, are shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, and simpler than these. And the written word, it strikes me, is but a shadow of our thoughts. 
