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The “Haiku House Project,” in progress between December and late February, focused on paper house puppets and haiku poems written by members of Rackley’s own neighborhood.
With funding from
Springboard for the Arts, Rackley made and delivered colorful kits of paper and other puppet-making materials to eight nearby households during December. As COVID-19 numbers worsened, he also delivered green poster boards and instructions for DIY green screens, so families could film their own elements of the video.
At that point, many of the families were missing out on Christmas and New Year’s with their families and friends. But the video project gave its participants “a chance to laugh at it,” he said.