Residue Dolls
Residue Dolls was created by artists Paul Evans, Patrick Amber and Jon Harrison in collaboration with Professor Tony Ryan and researchers from the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
Three stop-motion animated films, featuring puppetry co-created from everyday consumer packaging materials, will gently engage and inform viewers about the chemistry and ‘life cycles’ of throwaway packaging, such as plastics, paper, and cardboard.
Concept sketches from Paul
My sketches
The Puppets
The Modern Crisp Packets (starring environmentalist and national treasure ‘Chris Packet’), Molly the Milk Bottle, and Zaatari Mattresses highlight contrasts between wasteful approaches to materials in the UK and Northern England – and the innovative and ingenious approaches to reuse developed in the University of Sheffield Desert Garden Project, Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan.
Residue Dolls poses questions about what we can learn from different cultures and practical, engaged models of sustainable consumerism.
Here’s the finished video. (The puppets I made feature from 1m 30 s to 6m 20s.)