'My Imaginarium' Visual Journal Slide Show
This show represents the kind of process-based aesthetic research I have been using as an arts-based methodology for the Self-Inquiry. It is a method I used as an early research project, as well as a reflective practice I presently use with my pre-service teachers. Standard 1" binders are transformed into aesthetic pages of reflective text and images. I call this visual journaling exercise, The Imaginarium, as it represents the inner spaces, colors, and textures of unfolding story of life experience. It covers such content as historical data on childhood art experiences, the meaning of studio space, the experience of the creative process, media and themes in the work, pivotal life experiences, existential questions, philosophy of art and teaching, etc.... While these images appear as visual journal entries, it is the introspective, and reflective process rather than product that is emphasized as an integral part to self-inquiry as arts-based research. It is the process of remembering, digging for seeds of struggle and joy, envisioning future hopes, questing after symbols, colors, feelings that emerge in the process. Through personal storytelling, it allows for authentic exploration, for the space to risk, to recognize both materially-based cultural identity, and one's deeper spiritual Self. It facilitates the disclosing of attachments to life obstacles and perceptions of Being. It evokes the process of becoming. The final representations expressed upon the page becomes a mirror for dialoguing with the inner content, to find insights, and to help evolve perception and consciousness within the art practitioner. Just as painting is a metaphor for life, these collaged reflective pages are interpretive records of one's creative life process. They provide steps into growth, healing, and maturity and reveal the ways in which I have sought to find patterns, make meaning, and to re-story personal narrative more authentically.
posted by Administrator: Artshaman at 11:55 PM
2 Comments:
Nice job figuring out the slideshow program. Looks very nice. How are your committee members handling all of this?
Dont know if they are looking at it. I am thinking of it more as a resource for future use anyway. I think blogging gives a more immediate sense of audience in the writing process. I realize I am communicating with others... out there somewhere. Its good practice for the dissertation.
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