It’s been another long hiatus, for which I can only apologise to my solitary reader. I’ve been busy elsewhere but – as with many people – realising that the internet is not what it once was. So this is a little attempt at reclaiming a space, or if nothing else my copyright, of things online.
This idea started a very long time ago, but for various reasons I never quite got around to making an edition until now. The idea of a story box is part game, part book, part mystery. It’s very loosely inspired by Rory’s Story Cubes and from stories-as-games I’ve developed with both my own children and the MQ Art Club.
This particular box – “Brøt – Operation Black Sheep” contains 23 different elements that when ‘read’ together form a narrative. And a ‘reading’ of the contents is included in the box, but this may spark more questions than answers. It also – I hope – makes it clear that there are other ways to tell the story, other ways to interpret the objects. And what I’d love is to hear from ‘readers’ what they make of it, how they interpret the story..
This was tremendous fun to make, and includes something like ten different types of paper and card.
Made in an edition of four, with three still available for sale. Purchase through the shop.