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Creative wandering : writing, reading, painting as knowing through a/r/tography Fast, Alison
Abstract
This thesis project addresses ways of knowing at the intersection of a multiplicity of ways of being as mother, artist, researcher, teacher and learner. The pages that follow aim to document the entanglements of learning and living, making and being made by creative acts. Through a year filled with the immense life challenges such as this year, 2020, acts of making and arts education have the capacity to transform lives and to awaken persons to their will to imagine a society of love. Arts education can cultivate hopefulness for living and a resistance to the systems of domination as those who engage the arts gain a critical awareness, moving from numbness to action. The document is a record of a period of time in a woman’s life that is postpartum, the time following the birthing of a child and the birthing of the self as a mother in the world. It also documents the negotiating of identities, and how the various callings one takes up in life have the power to inform and enrich the others. Painting is recognized as enabling the development of thought alongside reading and writing. Through taking up processes whose outcomes are unknown, one may experience the unsettling ambiguity of going to a place one has never been before and searching for meaning and understanding in processes that are so familiar, yet difficult to understand in their totality. The work is meant to encourage a disposition of curiosity in the world and attuning oneself to take notice of that which shows up in the world, continually learning and growing. The hope would be that in taking up a living inquiry curiously in the world, one’s life may be enriched and enlivened, hope-filled and transformed. This work is largely indebted to the writings of Tim Ingold, Sylvia Kind, Rita Irwin, Mary Oliver, Maxine Greene, Anne Lammott, bell hooks, Walter Brueggemann, Carl Leggo, Jorella Andrews, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, amongst many others.
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Creative wandering : writing, reading, painting as knowing through a/r/tography
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University of British Columbia
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2020
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This thesis project addresses ways of knowing at the intersection of a multiplicity of ways of being as mother, artist, researcher, teacher and learner. The pages that follow aim to document the entanglements of learning and living, making and being made by creative acts. Through a year filled with the immense life challenges such as this year, 2020, acts of making and arts education have the capacity to transform lives and to awaken persons to their will to imagine a society of love. Arts education can cultivate hopefulness for living and a resistance to the systems of domination as those who engage the arts gain a critical awareness, moving from numbness to action. The document is a record of a period of time in a woman’s life that is postpartum, the time following the birthing of a child and the birthing of the self as a mother in the world. It also documents the negotiating of identities, and how the various callings one takes up in life have the power to inform and enrich the others. Painting is recognized as enabling the development of thought alongside reading and writing. Through taking up processes whose outcomes are unknown, one may experience the unsettling ambiguity of going to a place one has never been before and searching for meaning and understanding in processes that are so familiar, yet difficult to understand in their totality. The work is meant to encourage a disposition of curiosity in the world and attuning oneself to take notice of that which shows up in the world, continually learning and growing. The hope would be that in taking up a living inquiry curiously in the world, one’s life may be enriched and enlivened, hope-filled and transformed. This work is largely indebted to the writings of Tim Ingold, Sylvia Kind, Rita Irwin, Mary Oliver, Maxine Greene, Anne Lammott, bell hooks, Walter Brueggemann, Carl Leggo, Jorella Andrews, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, amongst many others.
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eng
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2021-01-04
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0395434
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University of British Columbia
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2021-05
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