Anthropologists tell us that storytelling is central to human existence and is common to every known culture. Storytelling involves a symbiotic exchange between teller and listener--an exchange we learn to negotiate from infancy. Storytelling is not just interactive in that it responds to your commands, but also instigating, constantly encouraging you to comment, contribute, join in; it is immersive. Just as the brain detects patterns in the visual forms of nature (a face, a figure, a flower), so too it does with information.   

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Stories are recognizable patterns and in those patterns we find meaning.  We use stories to make sense of our world and to share this understanding with one another; they are the signal within the noise. Recycled Stories is a series of ambiguous lore story lines: the tale of familial lineage, the death of a child, a relation to history, a symbol of hope. Each assemblage is a vague representation which anyone can relate to, an open interpretation that anyone can follow or participate with to carve out a role for themselves and make their own. We stand now at the intersection of lore and blur.