Sculptural puppets perform with their puppeteer in Beautiful Vulnerability (2025), 11 minutes

Beautiful Vulnerability combines the artforms of puppetry, performance and video to explore how humankind’s vulnerability might be expressed through artistic language, as an inherent quality in humankind. While there are many types of vulnerability attributable to a wide range of conditions and events, my conceptual puppetry performance proposes an exploration of qualities of vulnerability as inherent or deeply embedded within human lives, seeking to discover more beautiful engagements with vulnerability and its intangibility. My concept was influenced by French philosopher Simone Weil’s “The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence."

Taking on a performative role of artist-puppeteer, I explore human vulnerability as an abstract and hard to hold event, yet one possibly to be treasured. I employ puppetry performance - my puppets together with me as artist-puppeteer - to interrogate and evoke concepts of and for the vulnerability that underlies human life, and to reconsider the dynamics between vulnerability and control.