Marrying the words Puppets and Politics

Blast from the past here. This is the first project I did in Falmouth and although I hated how it looked at the time, its definitely starting to grow on me. The project was to choose two words from a list and put them together in an illustration. I chose puppets and politics because the Clinton vs. Obama elections were still ongoing.
I did ponder whether to make the puppets have a likeness to the politicians themselves, but eventually decided against it because I wanted to make an image that made a statement about politicians in general, I didnt want my audience to get distracted by the woman vs. black man topic, as they did in real life. My idea is that it doesnt matter who you vote for, the puppeteers are always in control.