The Wordless Art of Storytelling

How do you tell a story without words?Of course, given the title of the sermon, I immediately thought of dance, silent movies, charades, the movement of story. Photography and visual art sprang to mind as well; and, of course, illustration. Children's books show us how to tell a story without words.
We provide story as a subtext of life. We storify everything. Storification is what humans do - I think it is a reflection of the idea that we are made in God's image. Other species love, some better than us, but what are their stories? Do they also storify life?
Biblical stories have been extensively illustrated. That was how illiterate laity learned about God in the Middle Ages; hence, the centrality of Christian art. We largely lost that in the Reformation with the rise of sola scriptura. But, with the loss of art, we lost part of what made Christianity the "beautiful religion" to the early Russian tribes who chose to convert to Christianity because of its beauty.
Words, of course, have beauty too (I am a writer, after all); but I am with Alice in Alice's in Wonderland, who saw little use of a story without illustrations.
None of this has anything to do with the sermon - I am off on a tangent. But it's worth chasing this particular white rabbit, even if it doesn't have a pocket watch, in part because it meshes so well with the story I wrote for Tuesday.
Jesus was a god who told stories; but, Jesus also illustrated God without and beyond words.
Perhaps storifying our life becomes art when we live with intention and awareness.
"A poet is a person who takes words and does something with them, makes something personal and original out of them."
A person who tells stories with intention illustrates the nature of God.
"We are all illustrating a story, whether we know it or not." Our actions illustrate the words we use to tell the story of our life.