Ahab's Wife, 1998

Commissioned for the Henson International Puppet Festival

This project combines a personal story and a historical narrative. The personal story is an exploration of my father's physical condition living for 18 years with paralysis of half of his body after suffering a stroke at age 53. I became fascinated with Herman Melville's description of the whale's body when I read Moby Dick the summer after my father died . "...the...