Ceramics: Art and Perception

The Storyteller: The Woven Narratives of Natalia Dias

A story is one of the most powerful shaping forces in human life. We create stories to forge connections between how we live, think, feel and in turn these stories shape us, becoming woven into our memories. We have an inherent need to create stories to make sense of the world, moving through them by day as we do by night. It usually just happens, without us willing them into being, and they are hard to suppress, in fact, ‘we’ do not always have control.

It is an extraordinary ability once you stop to consider it, that we can with so much ease, thread

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