This painting represents the tears and disruptions that occur during the process of change; and my personal transformation and acceptance as artist/researcher/teacher. Knowles, J.G. and Cole, A. L. (2008) write:
To become a researcher who fuses the arts into research processes and representations is to possess a creativity and artfulness. It is to have a willingness to be creative and to not be bounded by traditions of academic discourse and research process but, rather, to be grounded in them (p. 14).
The movement and flow in the painting characterize the rhizome as interpreted by Irwin, R. L. & Springgay, S. (2008): “A/r/tography is a research methodology that entangles and performs what Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1987) refer to as a rhizome. [...] It is an interstitial space, open and vulnerable where meanings and understandings are interrogated and ruptured” (p. xx.).
This entanglement and complication is the crux of my explorations these past few months. Discovering a/r/tography and the methodologies being used by researchers at UBC has given me a language to explain a process that is already second nature to me. Further, the paintings have given me the space to move through and explore my own acceptance of this process as method and the potential to use art as a potential method of communication for participants in the project once my interviews begin.
This painting represents the tears and disruptions that occur during the process of change; and my personal transformation and acceptance as artist/researcher/teacher. Knowles, J.G. and Cole, A. L. (2008) write:
To become a researcher who fuses the arts into research processes and representations is to possess a creativity and artfulness. It is to have a willingness to be creative and to not be bounded by traditions of academic discourse and research process but, rather, to be grounded in them (p. 14).
The movement and flow in the painting characterize the rhizome as interpreted by Irwin, R. L. & Springgay, S. (2008): “A/r/tography is a research methodology that entangles and performs what Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1987) refer to as a rhizome. [...] It is an interstitial space, open and vulnerable where meanings and understandings are interrogated and ruptured” (p. xx.).
This entanglement and complication is the crux of my explorations these past few months. Discovering a/r/tography and the methodologies being used by researchers at UBC has given me a language to explain a process that is already second nature to me. Further, the paintings have given me the space to move through and explore my own acceptance of this process as method and the potential to use art as a potential method of communication for participants in the project once my interviews begin.
