stories we're told often represent
something else.
A story lies in shared symbols and
history. Meaning and understanding
are fluid and dependent on shared
knowledge and individual experience.
Traditionally stories are a means of
explaining something. They are enter-
tainment, a teaching tool, a ritual and
a way of remembering.
Bread is an elementary foodstuff
which holds an importance beyond its
function.
with strong traditions and super- a story, where the journey is a
stitions attached to it. Significant task. The unfinished stair is an
in many cultures and religions, it incomplete destination; it leads
is a symbol of survival. nowhere.
The leather trees represent the Bread, bricks, leather, fabric.
dark woods and the stairs, the The Salt Gallery: Women in the
tower, the fortress or the home. Front Room. 2006
Together they are the journey www.thesaltgallery.co.uk
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