Every Object Tells a Story
Every Object Tells a Story is an animation project created in collaboration with Elizabeth Law. This project explored the storytelling of WWI Dazzle ships through strikingly distorted typography, considered motion and spoken word. The brief was to create a short projection mapped animation that could be used as an immersive installation for a museum. The dynamic animation is used cleverly to disguise the form of the plinth nodding to the confusing quality of the Dazzle ships.
The warped imagery are lines from a poem by Victoria Hendry, a Scottish female poet. We decided to add the audio of the poem layered with ambient wave noises that evoke the movement of the sea. The audio component adds depth to the piece, inviting the viewers to not only see but feel the confusion that the Dazzle ships aimed to inflict.
