For my senior Capstone Project, I wanted to explore the design and fabrication process for a full body puppet. Bessie is from Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea by Julia Izumi. Her character is very flirty, confident, and a cow. Throughout the script, Bessie is required to have full usage of her hands and full mobility to run across the stage - these needs were the starting point for the design. The visual element of the story-page fabric represented Bessie being a character from a story within a story. I wanted it to be very obvious that she was not a real cow but was a cow from a story. This puppet was never used for actual stage production, all photos and video are from my final Capstone presentation.