Beth Gray

My interpretation Kurt Schwitters fairytales, which Schwitters wrote during his period of internment on the Isle of Man is based on his own findings as an outsider in response the  rather British habit of being overly polite and avoiding an awkward truth when speaking face to face.

The tale is about a man with a glass nose who has the ability to smell what a person is really thinking, everybody compliments him on his nose but he can smell their true opinions.  I interpreted the moral to be about how you can’t trust totally what people say, how they will normally say what they think you want to hear, and how hard it can be to read peoples true emotions.

Our brief was to interperate the story and create an immersive experience for the viewer, I have attempted to do this the by animating the story’s text and then diffracting the projected image through a glass crystal ball.
Needless to say, it will be impossible to follow the story in the accepted way, and showcasing the moral of this tale and hopefully resulting in a more interactive/ emotional connection to the tale.