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Opera Dei Pupi

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW, Jaideep, asks us to write
a Heritage-Tech Fusion poem.

Heritage-Tech Fusion is a poem of just three lines that brings together a cultural tradition and modern technology. My senryu is inspired by Opera dei Pupi …. the traditional Sicilian marionette theatrical art forms which are now being preserved using advanced 3D motion capture and interactive audio-visual displays. Virtual Reality programs allow museum visitors to manipulate digital clones of historical puppets or step onto virtual stages representing medieval chivalric tales.

Image by Me & ChatGPT

Pupo’s strings go slack ….
motion sensors learn his gait
now the world can pull

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This is “L’armata Dei Pupi Siciliani” (Army of Sicilian Puppets) by Calabria Sona

And, of course, there’s the evil Don Fanucci from “Godfather 2″ who briefly stops to watch the puppet show during la festa.

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