Brooklyn Birch, a puppet, symbolizes for me the use of enchantment in its role of distancing the mind from discouragement and demoralization. These states of mind, too often drive individuals, sadly, into emotionally driven acts bereft of artistic design. Comedic ventriloquism may act to symbolize the common struggle against demoralization and despair, against uncertainty, that confusion that may cause depression, a dysfunctional existence destructive to the self and to others.