Stories have various functions within our societies encouraging and fostering both individual or collective bonds, creating a sense of identity and can simultaneously include, and by default, exclude. Stories help us to understand and explore the world around us and our place within it they document our subjective and objective experiences. Indeed stories are not just rooted in the emperical, the fantastical and mythical also help us to explore reality through layers of abstraction. Haring's works tells the stories of the lives and the movements, the peoples and the objects that the young artist drew from and interacted with. His 20th Century stories present a snapshot of his society and his self-actualisation and discovery within it. Haring's visual codes and language, the stories he tells through his art, have created timeless narratives that are as much of his time as they are of ours. Haring's stories are stories that resonate across time, cultures and places line by line.