Disability and Illness in Arts-Informed Research:  Moving Toward Postconventional Representations
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Chapter 1:  Three Hundred and Forty-Nine Words
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world that pales in our theoretical presentation of its being. Rose has not always found writing easy. A wound is presencing. Vulnerability has to be encountered, even before she knows solace arises as a homeopathic.

The text, congruent with life, is discontinuous, fragmented. Writing and thinking through the images has not been a straight-lined process. This writer imagines the possibility of change, the healing of a world where ideas split skin, spill blood.

The methods Rose used in this writing are anxious uncertainty, epistemic doubt, wonder, and breath. She is committed to the uncertainty of knowledge. Her method is an artist's, where failure and getting it wrong open us to the world, to embodied experience.

This is a story where writing tickles fingers and language sweats itself through pores. Read the spaces between the words, read the absence of colours, read with imagination curled up beside you.