This painting erupted one evening as I hit a metaphoric wall in the struggle to avoid writing about my own family as I address the methods and theory that I intend to use for my research. I felt the fatalism that Freiere (2006) warns about: “If individuals are caught up in and are unable to separate themselves from these limit-situations, their theme of reference to these situations is fatalism, and the task implied by the theme is the lack of task” (p. 113).
I felt as if I needed to embody and own my own narrative in a way that I stopped apologizing in the story. For that moment when I was immobilized, I moved beyond reflection and within the act of painting. According to Freiere (2006):
A critical perception is embodied in action, a climate of hope and confidence develops which leads men (sic) to attempt to overcome the limit-situations. This objective can be achieved only through action upon the concrete, historical reality in which limit-situations are superseded, new ones appear, which in turn will evoke new limit-acts (p. 99-100).
Finding an opening wherein I can explore my part in this story, the interest and biases that I come to is critical to the research.
This painting erupted one evening as I hit a metaphoric wall in the struggle to avoid writing about my own family as I address the methods and theory that I intend to use for my research. I felt the fatalism that Freiere (2006) warns about: “If individuals are caught up in and are unable to separate themselves from these limit-situations, their theme of reference to these situations is fatalism, and the task implied by the theme is the lack of task” (p. 113).
I felt as if I needed to embody and own my own narrative in a way that I stopped apologizing in the story. For that moment when I was immobilized, I moved beyond reflection and within the act of painting. According to Freiere (2006):
A critical perception is embodied in action, a climate of hope and confidence develops which leads men (sic) to attempt to overcome the limit-situations. This objective can be achieved only through action upon the concrete, historical reality in which limit-situations are superseded, new ones appear, which in turn will evoke new limit-acts (p. 99-100).
Finding an opening wherein I can explore my part in this story, the interest and biases that I come to is critical to the research.
