Wiggle World

Wiggle World is just a toy about shape and motion. I thought of it one day while watching ducks and turtles at a local pond.

As ducks emerged from the water, their butts would wiggle back and forth, seemingly independent of the rest of their bodies. If you've ever seen a duck shake off some damp, you'll know what I mean.

As turtles sank deeper into the water, I noticed that their features faded as their depths increased. Eventually, I could see only vague blobs with stumpy limbs drifting in and out through patches of light.

Shapes and light and motion are what I was watching that day at the pond. I thought might be fun to make a toy that lets a person draw some shapes in order to watch them drift and shift and wiggle. So that's what Wiggle World does.