This was a LOT of (sweaty) fun, a friend of mine was directing a production of Little Shop of Horrors, and asked me to be the puppeteer inside the life-sized man-eating-plant puppets.
I did not make this beautiful puppet, it was borrowed from American Stage, but doing an emergency repair on one of them that got damaged during a rehearsal gave me my first foray into carving and working with Styrofoam as a prop material, now one of my favorite mediums to work in.
I had to work closely with the actor who played "Twoey"s rich singing voice so that we could synchronize movement while I was blind inside the puppet.