AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Painted on lumpy paper mache.
This one was sold; it was a personal favorite, named for the women who during the war in the Balkans had to dash across a boulevard and risk getting shot by snipers just to go shopping. The boulevard was nicknamed "Sniper Alley". This puppet came with a lttle mesh shopping bag filled with some kind of vine seed that looked like little potatos. It was part of Uncle Scam's "Adopt a War Orphan" puppet collection and sold on the street.
It always amazes me how life can go on under the hellish conditions of war, how the crazy becomes everyday, like these women's triumph at making it back alive with a sack of food.
I once saw the movie Little Murders( adapted from Jules Feiffer, starring Eliot Gould, Alan Arkin...) several times under the influence of, er, something; it was also about the horrifying becoming commonplace and has been etched in my memory for several decades.
For more puppets, see http://unclescam.org/bpt1.html

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