Shadow Puppet Arsenal

2025 October #002. This piece emerged from a literary fragment about a child who met his father for the first time at age four, during turbulent times that promised peace but delivered war. That historical echo became a question: how do our unspoken anxieties shape even our most tender moments with children? What inadvertent prophecies do we cast through gestures meant only as play?

The shadow theater became my investigation into unconscious transmission. Every parent believes they protect their children from adult concerns, yet our hands cannot help but craft the shapes that haunt us. The me