art-research-teach
Welcome!
This site is my open notebook to document and dissect the connections between making ART, doing RESEARCH and being a TEACHer.
Some call the connections between these three things a/r/tography*.
Sometimes I think about other people’s thinking. Sometimes I try to make some art. Sometimes I try to write some poetry.
All of this is a form of living action-research arts-based inquiry.
“*A/r/tography: a “commitment to aesthetic and educational practices, inquiry-laden processes, a search for meaning, and interpreting for understanding.”
“The arts create space for thinking differently and provide opportunities to explore intuitive and emotionally connected ideas that do not rely on words alone”
“Arts-based practices open up spaces for doing things differently by moving beyond propositional or conceptual knowledge and bringing into focus experiential knowledge to express knowing in practical terms”
“More ‘meaningful insights [that] often come by surprise, unexpectedly and even against the will of the creator’ result from reflection undertaken through an arts-based approach.”
“Georges Braque on losing his sketchbook:
‘It’s like I’ve lost my brains’.”