Cardboard Handpuppets Life - 2025

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“The subject is nothing other than what slides in a chain of signifiers, whether he knows which signifier he is the effect of or not.” — Jacques Lacan

This body of work draws on a Lacanian framework to explore subjectivity through a series of paintings of cardboard hand puppets. The puppets move between the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary, appearing as alienated figures whose identities are formed rather than inherent. Made from consumer packaging and commodity boxes, they reflect how subjectivity is shaped by systems of consumption, branding, and exchange. In these works, consumer goods do more than symbolize desire—they actively structure and speak it. The hand puppet functions as a figure of displacement: animated by forces outside itself, caught in a chain of signs, and lacking full autonomy.

 

Little Other 45 x 60 cm

Little Other, Study of Specular Image 90 x 90cm

Sketch, 29 x 41 cm

Sketch 29 x 41 cm

Portrait of Cardboard Handpuppet 50 x 65 cm

Yes, That Person over there is me 65 x 95 cm

Offerings from the Auxilary 100 x 115 cm

Father & Son Handpuppets 69 x 100 cm

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