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Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

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Wayne White
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
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University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
Morton Wayne Thiebaud
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