INTERVIEW WITH ISOL ON STORYTELLING
This interview, found in Varoom, explores the insipration around Isol's (Marisol Misenta) storymaking and the approaches she takes to creating a narrative. Certain ideas popped out about the act of making a story. Isol describes storywriting as 'a nice game to invent something'. I am really interested in this idea of inventing something, that the story can be your own play with ideas and dreams, perhaps becoming a completely new invention.
On the issue of invention, Isol goes on to say that the most important part of a narrative is 'an original point of view', suggesting that the author or illustrator does not need to necessarily invent a completely new world or narrative, but just be able to tell a story that is unique in it's perspective. I think this is something to consider in line with my interests in british cultures, I would not want to create a book that relays the ideas and perceptions that are stereotypical, but perhaps find interpretations that are personal.
Isol also discusses the idea of taking the reader on a journey; 'The capacity for the artist to have an original point of view takes the reader into a new state of surprise so that he/she can feel or think about the world and its wonders (in which the book is included) in a fresh way.' It here seems that the artist's way of seeing becomes the binoculars through which the reader looks onto the story. As I move into level 5, I am really excited to start focusing on the sort of narrative work that inspires my work so frequently. I have taken inspiration from many children's books but have not yet fully had the opportunity to explore story telling which I would like to be a key part of my developing practice.
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