Lorraine Huang,

Artist

To be storied

‘To be storied’ is a handmade visual storybook. Without any planned storyboard, the inspiration for the story comes from the making and practice itself, in a serendipitous and simultaneous way. The continuity of the concertina form concertina carries the storyline, and invites the audience to narrate their own adventures. 

As an artist and enthusiast for mini-narratives, I am interested in the fluidity of personal stories, and how art facilitates the generation of new narratives. Narrative can provide us an individual path to understand the construction of a collective world; how people think about themselves, and connect themselves to aspects of their lives and society. Moreover, art-making as an action that integrates individual experience, intuition, and epiphany, always surprises me. Exchanging ideas with others about how they understand a piece also leads to other creative thoughts, enabling continuous learning and creation. This practice-based research explores how to critically engage with the story and its production, and how narrative inquiry and art-making can complement each other in teaching and learning.