“These complete and incomplete sentences are 1) extracted from my notebooks (in English and my native German) where they are submerged in to-do lists, texts, and notes for puppet shows and multi-cultural polemics and diatribes, 2) elaborations on words which are prominent in the modern and not so modern jargon, 3) world-tackling language in its own right, neither fiction nor poetry nor philosophy.” - Peter Schumann.
The sentences are numbered from 1-604 with accompanying illustrations of abstractly rendered figures with speech bubbles rambling about “the situation”: “the situation is only interested in its own well-being,” “the situation does not want to,” “the situation would if it could,” etc. Contemplative, expressive, and whimsical, Bread & Sentences provides a window into the thoughts and personality of Peter Schumann, founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater.
