personal artful yet scholarly inquiry. Embrace the aesthetics of this incredible text and you may be transported to, or transformed by, new ideas and identities. Several years ago I wrote an article with several students of mine. It was a couple of years before the word a/r/tography would be coined but the concept was very much developed. In that group of women I found myself exploring this concept: 'as I create I am created' (Irwin et. al. 2001). To me this is another example of the pedagogy of parallax. As we perform, paint, write music or poetry or fiction, we are conveying complex ideas and often these ideas are the complex parts of ourselves we are coming to understand as we are creating. In the doing, in the creating, we are becoming. We are transforming ourselves. In reading this volume, I urge you to embrace the freedom to create and re-create this text - to share in the creation of this text. You may come to understand, or create, another side of yourself. It will be a joyful and profound experience.
References:
Irwin, R. L., Stephenson, W., Robertson, H., & Reynolds, J. K. (2001). Passionate creativity, compassionate community. Canadian Review of Art Education, 28(2), 15-34.