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When Artist Appears as “Storyteller”…

Slavica Janešlieva

Among the Macedonian people there is a tradition of telling and retelling legends, tales and stories and thus passing them from one generation to the next one. I am not an exception from this tradition and I very much like and enjoy and even feel a great urge of telling stories. Since I am not a writer I don’t choose only words as means of expression. I do like words and language, but I use them only as an additional device to enable the viewer feel the perceptions and various emotions. I tell the stories as a visual artist. Thus what is in my memory i.e. the narration is transformed into a representation, into an object, a color, a materialized substance. more...