Divina - Hand and rod puppet

"Divina" was my first attempt at making hand and rod puppets. Her hands were very rudimentary and one-dimensional. Later, I evolved hands to be 3-dimensional and to add an emotional quality to them.

I briefly toyed with the idea of making and selling puppets on the internet. Thus, the second Divina head was born. This was carved in clay, then made into a plaster mold to be used with neoprene.