Complementing sculpture, for me, is storytelling. Whereas sculpture is concentration and compression, storytelling is multiplicity and expansion. Where sculpture is wordless absorption in the process of creating and manipulating physical form; storytelling is the word-filled experience of talking into life a long scroll of characters and contexts.
Sculpture needs a studio, tools, and materials; it is heavy with the implements of craft. Storytelling takes the world for its studio, and needs no tools but observation and imagination.
Sculpture is solitary, often, while storytelling tends to the gregarious, and likes performance.
