The idea: To interview a participant about their life and then, using a computer program I built for story generation and my own storytelling practice, I'll regenerate a salient story from the participant's life as a fictional story, one fueled by images, patterns and events in folklore and fiction that are analogous to the life story of the participant.

The process: We have a conversation about your life. What we talk about is entirely up to you. I have a toolkit of games and conversation starters that can prompt you with a word or image to help invoke memories. I might ask you questions to get details or understand your story better, but in practice this has rarely been necessary. My objective is to get a sense of you in order to produce a portrait in the form of a story that reflects you, your personality, and your life. You can choose to talk about the past, the present, or the future life you imagine. Once the draft of the fictional story is completed, we will meet, I will tell you the story so that you can give me feedback and suggestions. I will revise it to fine tune for resonance to your life experince.

The result: You will decide what happens to the final story: I can provide a text copy, have a professional audio recording made of the story, or tell the story as a performance to a group of your friends.

Think of me as your imaginative historian: I'm here to record some of you life and give it back to you in a new way, hopefully one that you will find interesting, surprising and meaningful.