When you work with a lot of curiosity you’re always looking for more (more ways to use stuff, more impact, more size, more meaning etc.) this trait tends to become a process that never ends. The larger and more complicated the puppet becomes, the more you start worrying exponentially about weight and structure and as our ideas grow eventually the human body becomes a limit. Cars and such machines (bicycles,cranes,boats etc.) provide structures to hold weight that would be too much for a human to carry, on top of that they move and can be controlled (just like a puppet). Perfect. ​In 1935 the United States produced around 4 million vehicles in its factories, just 25 years after cars were even considered for mass production, the popularity of automobiles as a modern household item thus changed (and keeps changing) our ecosystem and society completely in its favor.  Now almost a hundred years later it is almost impossible to imagine our lives without some kind of motorized transportation weaving thru our errands, commitments and goals.  In American society there’s nothing more common than a car, no path more traversed than a road yet they all look almost the same and serve the same purpose , how to flip such a prewritten narrative upside down and reclaim such systems of  order, pollution and efficiency into chaos, imagination and wonder, as usual our sculptures came to provide the answer. It’s thru this search that we found a perfect “vehicle”(lol) to bring our work outside of established environments and institutions during the covid 19 pandemic.  Facing massive shutdowns of all public and private programming we yearned for a way to do theater and performance within the parameters of safety(6 feet distance between humans & no public gatherings) by transforming a car/Van into one “giant puppet show” consisting of many creatures, actions and possibilities, we could bring the usual joys of the live entertainment industry into everyday life and provide a wide range of interactions depending on the ephemeral (and many times unintentional) audience. No permission, legality or production was ever granted nor asked for we just drove around  announcing our presence with loud music or by simply beeping the horn, we would cater to whomever was interested or curious enough to watch, in this new style of public intervention a show could last a few minutes or even just one second.  ​ The focus of  such a performance is not outcome based but rather an intention to obstruct/coexist with reality,  when there is no proposed outcome there is no failure of any kind, everything is understood as a triumph, the directive is to exist. In its wake confusion, shock, smiles and laughter lingered attached to moments and places of everyday life. These intervened vehicles and machinery are the literal definition of “imagination come to life” and no venue/building can hold them, they are made to perform on the outside world and move around it, thus becoming another kind of theater/activity without planning ,restraint or demands.  Because it had such direct contact with everyday busines, but stood out so much in it, at the same time belonging and invading, we called the first prototype “Reality Breaker” built in collaboration with our dear friends Millagros yall collective in New Orleans in 2020. We took the Reality Breaker out into the streets immediately upon completion for a series of tests we drove around for hours with 7 people, one driver and 6 manipulators/puppeteers, 2 of them on the roof (the second “floor” of the machine and the most notable head part) we stopped at gas stations passed by parks and honked in empty streets to make people look thru their windows, and they did. The magic/trick was to bring something alien into reality and provide no explanation for it, in a society where everything must have a “reason” or even worse a capitalist aim, the simple existence of something truly strange and massive going on about its business as if it were normal truly added the cherry on top to the project by literally breaking(the way their reality works) reality in a way, and where there’s only puzzled faces, confusion and curiosity are handed out as answers. ​ Feedback was immediate, mostly of a positive kind, from random passersby to fellow cars it seemed to extrude excitement and wonder out of the people that came in touch with it , others of a more logical mind just asking themselves “but why?” Dumbfounded, in the midst of the pandemic where outings were limited to crucial survival missions (by most) and morale was pretty low, it provided a great backdrop to encounter a colorful random surprise. We eventually put an online tracker and message board where people could follow our route “live” and communicate with us, this led to many amazing encounters and stories where families would request our presence in their street to cram in the balcony and see a live show delivered to their doorstep. After that we have built multiple more cars within and outside the pandemic era and also evolved into the transformation of cranes, tractors and buses sometimes to drive or to invite people in others to invite us into a situation like a modern Trojan horse. Many beautiful people family and strangers alike have been involved in the manipulation of this husks of imagination (the bus we built in Australia needed 23 people to be manipulated properly) from the inside and out , being drivers, mouths or giant dragons, posing as traffic police or even just passed out in the back, our deepest gratitude goes out to them, when you do this kind of work there’s a spark in your heart that lights up a little, half tribal half existential, and I’m sure they took that too as a reward.