I made a load of stamps which are all motifs and imagery taken from the stories / the world I've created. But I'm interested how these can then be interpreted and taken by others to create their own narratives and stories?
So as a storytelling exercise I set up a mini workshop for my family to do for them to make compositions which tell their own little stories
My mums the only one who kinda semi knows what my stories are about, whereas for my Dad and brother, these stamps were just images for them to put their own spin on which is what I was after
This was really fun and lovely and made me feel so sentimental n grateful! My dads very creative in the sense that hes a builder but he came into this going nah I'm not imaginative i don't know what I'm doing !!!! but he really got into it and wanted more colours and was really enjoying the process of stamping it was so lovely. He never really gets involved in what I do so it made me so happy to see him so engaged and enjoying it
The idea of making building blocks for other people to put their own meaning onto is really interesting to me which is why I want my story to still be open to interpretation - the text isn't going to be completely clearly explaining the narrative if that makes sense?
It was really valuable to spend time translating what I was doing in my sketchbook into purely shape based images - asking myself what elements needed keeping / removing - what bits are most important in making this image reflect what it is supposed to be in the simplest way
I'm going to try and make some compositions myself of these stamps if I have time - I think taking the ones for each of the 4 stories and creating a repeat pattern would be an interesting exercise and could potentially work as end paper for my book?
The stamps themselves, and a 'bank of stamps' I used to show my family what stamps they had to work with:
My family doing the workshop I set up:
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