Patrick Michael Ballard is a cross-disciplinary storyteller utilizing material practice, theater, song, and collaborative game-making to expand and challenge conventions of fantasy, domesticated thought, and how we construct the idea of a “self”. Bringing together seemingly disparate crafts of puppet-making, quilting, felting, soft and hard foam sculpture, backyard metal casting, practical FX, miniature stage-design, improvisatory music, whimsical yet highly semantical list making, and noise, Patrick utilizes spoken-word threads to weave uncanny situations and spaces, revealing the many worlds of meaning and melding within the carnivalesque and mundane.