"I didn't want to turn the world into a map. I wanted to turn the map into a world."
...so says Donavan Hahn in 'Moby Duck: an accidental odyssey : the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them'
I intend to do the same with this shadow puppet play about the ocean. I am charting out a sea world that stars some sea captains and many many fishies. This book is exposing me to all kinds of currents of information about iconography, myth, plastic pollutions, and the many tides of our imaginations. I encourage everyone interested in the state of our degrading oceans and environment to pick this book up. It's a truly fascinating read, not to mention fun to base a shadow puppet play on.
Here are my puppets in progress. Remember these are the first drafts, and they will be put behind a stage screen and illuminated from behind, so eventually they will look very different. 
I'm pretty excited, I will not lie 'bout it.