ホテル Hotel – other puppets and NADJA – the Lovers’ Flower – dummy books in two different sizes…

Preparing the shows and also finalizing dummy books with photographs from the hotel and a painting “Anemone I” by Yasuo Imai.

Here some other examples of puppets around me. These ones sit in a car, at first I thought it is a joke, but in fact these are a trick so the driver can use the faster car pool lane, here is mom…. :

Josiane Keller - puppet riding in passenger seat

Josiane Keller “puppet riding in passenger seat” (2016)

and the kids sit in the back, what a lovely family:

Josiane Keller - puppet riding in back seat of a car

Josiane Keller “puppet riding in back seat of a car” (2016)

I also found a “copy” of “Agnes blowing a bubble and advertisement”; I am pretty sure whoever took that shot has not seen my picture, and I certainly had not seen his, yet stunningly similar; how many photographs exist of a ‘girl blowing a chewing gum bubble’? Do we “create” such a photograph or do we only fulfill teh expectation of an audience, how a ‘girl blowing a chewing gum bubble’ should look like, because we have seen it so many times before?

Josiane Keller - Agnes blowing a bubble and advertisement

Josiane Keller “Agnes blowing a bubble and advertisement” (2016)

here coffee puppets from paper and plastic:

Josiane Keller - coffee puppets

Josiane Keller “coffee puppets” (2016)

Finally two out of three dummy books so far, number one is on its way to Budapest, Hungary, one of these two is coming with me to Tokyo. The bindery made a mistake and at first had one of them upside down, so when doing it over they clipped again the edges, the effect is the third book is small than one and two.

Andy Warhol would embrace that type of mistake, so who am I to spit against the wind?

Josiane Keller - NADJA dummy books front

Josiane Keller “NADJA dummy books front” (2016)

Josiane Keller - NADJA dummy books back

Josiane Keller “NADJA dummy books back” (2016)