Dance, movement, patterns. Paper replaces parchment, round scripts replace angular scripts, papermaking is introduced to the Islamic lands from China in the eighth century and slowly spreads westward. Humans are highly mobile, migrating and traveling to every part of the world. Everything is a matter of perspective – North is not up, the time is not now, and things generally are not what they seem – or seem to be something they’re not. The idea of a single “authentic” version of a story does not exist, because stories are constantly being reworked and embellished by the storyteller. The shapes and perceptions of time, duration, the history of things, sequence. The end of a verse into a tear-shaped hā’ . A story can begin anywhere the storyteller chooses.