Made during my third year at Edinburgh College of Art, Elio is a stop-motion puppet built for the film 'Daybreak', a short adapted from the last stanza of the Bert Meyer's poem of the same name:
"The sun climbs down from a roof,
stops by a house and strikes
its long match on a wall,
takes out a ring of brass keys
and opens every door."
Inspired by the personifying imagery and the reference to the crescent Moon as a goat's horns earlier in the poem, I made Elio a lion, his wooly mane a reference to the Sun's rays.
Before making the puppet I made digital mock-ups of the potential fabrics I was going to use.
