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The Story of Frankenstein is a visual re-imagining of the famous novel by Mary Shelley. Through the metaphoric use of the kaleidoscope, it explores the way the individual mirrors themselves to the other, against the back-drop of the romantic-individualism of the novel, and offers a critique of this relation through the use of Karpman’s Drama Triangle—a social model of human interaction that maps a type of destructive behaviour between people in conflict. A tool used in psychotherapy, which is here used to analyse the interaction between the main characters.

The books visually convey the workings of the Drama Triangle by showing, in each edition, only one side of one of the three narrator’s stories, showing the text where there’s a monologue and mirroring the lines spoken bij another character whenever there is dialogue, stressing the unwillingness of all characters to consider each others point-of-view, which lies at the heart of their destructive behaviour. It pushes them back more and more into their own cognitive world, and creates a bigger space between them.

This design makes it essential to have all the books together to be able to follow the whole story, considering it from all sides, and so shows how we can’t make full sense of ourselves, or our own behaviour in a situation, without it being reflected back at us by others.