Shostakovich’s 1928 opera, The Nose, based on Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 short story of the same name, recounts the story of Kovalyov, a mid-level bureaucrat whose nose leaves his face and sets off on its own, and his attempt to find and re-attach it. William Kentridge produced a production of the Opera The Nose in 2010. One of the images of the Nose (who declared himself higher up in the bureaucratic hierarchy than Kovalyov) was as a rider of a horse, and as an equestrian statue. The animation for the projections was made with jointed paper puppets. The horses started out as animations, then became cardboard and wood, then became table-top sculptures.