Silver Stories is a hauntingly poetic, genre-defying narrative by visionary artist Micaela Amateau Amato. Experimental "diasporic conversations" merge vivid storytelling, personal history, political rage, and ancestral wisdom. Through fragmented vignettes and visual interludes, Amato invites readers into a lyrical exploration of memory, injustice, love, trauma, and the mystical power of voice.
Weaving together autobiography, political reckoning, spiritual reflection, and visual art, Amato's narrative is deeply rooted in her Spanish/Moroccan/Mediterranean heritage and diasporic experience. The stories unfold in layers—like palimpsests on the walls of time—inked in metaphorical silver.
The book is richly illustrated with Amato’s cast glass sculptures, mixed-media portraits, archival photographic montages, and abstract painted evocations of earth, sea, and wind that extend the text—becoming spectral witnesses to the stories being told.