Francesca Borgatta makes puppets, exhibits, and installations. She designs activities so people can make their own art, and use it, to develop images for group interaction. Her themes examine cultural identity, sense of belonging, and the uses of art to generate communication.

A new video work by Francesca is based on Dvorák: The Spectre’s Bride:

To make her art, Francesca combines re-cycled objects and materials taken from nature. To begin a puppet, she joins a few elements, to examine the interplay of qualities-shape, color, and texture, inherent in their forms. If this construct appears as a segment of a face or figure, she paints on layers of glue, adding cloth or paper to unify the surface, emphasizing aspects and adding new elements to explain its nature. If two figures seem related, she builds a scene for their encounter. She may develop text and dialogue to explain their predicament. She seeks to involve the audience, stating a situation with which people can identify, asking them to manipulate puppets or other things, to reflect on their experience.

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