Storytelling
(Lecture by Jane Anderson)
Storytelling is one of the most important aspects of any creative, and a creative must be able to tell stories with their work.
When we see, hear, smell or touch something, our memory retrieves contextual information about the stimuli and builds a narrative around it.
Nero science has shown that our cognitive systems are higher hardwired for telling stories because of our memory capacity.
Storytelling happens since the beginning of our species.
Before the men learn to write and read, he had to rely on memory to learn. Priest, Judges and Ruler were ones of the most important people who've been great at storytelling.
Storytelling has the ability to connect people with each other, to the past, to the future and with the world around us.
A good story provokes our emotions, communicates information and messages.
We can tell a story by type, image,...
Artwork by Bethanne Hill
“Bethanne Hill isn’t trying to create realistic scenes in her paintings. “It’s like storytelling,” she says, “where embellishing with lots of details makes it interesting.”
Text by Linda Wright / Photography by John O’Hagan