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It somehow seemed perfectly normal that Sol, the ghost of an elderly Jewish New Yorker trapped inside a muppet, would join our interview with Morgan Jesse Lappin. Morgan is a multi-hyphenate collage artist, musician and occasional puppeteer, based in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, who brims over with the same gleeful energy as a Jim Henson Studios creation. He has a magpie’s drive towards serendipitous collecting: rescuing records, books, comics and paper ephemera, often plucked right off the streets.