I really loved this reading, and thought it was beautiful and quite poetic! It captures the essence of A/R/Tography as a constantly shifting, changing, morphing, living being.
I took some of my favorite passages and combined them into a poem of sorts.
Just like our art making and researching weaves around and through one another to form our curriculum and how we operate and exist in the world as educators, so too does this poem pull from various sections: cutting, pasting, bobbing and weaving together to form a completely new understanding:
(all lines taken from Rendering Dimensions of a Liminal Currere, Pauline Sameshima & Rita L. Irwin)
Non-linear, rhizomatic, and dynamically interwoven,
we follow the paths of the liminal edge;
not seeking the nostalgic desire to leave where we are and travel across to the other place,
but to travel between and along the edges
of here and there,
in the unsettled liminal space.
The development of curriculum is spiritual,
in that artful practice,
creativity,
and creative acts,
are spiritual passages between,
a translation of a joyful wisdom 'thinking maybe',
a pedagogy of spirituality that informs and reforms our thinking.
Serenity is described as inner peace,
not happiness but a 'comeback to happiness'
in spite of suffering,
Living in the ether is thus living in a mode of inquiry,
that is sensually
and sensitively charged.
Artful research is spiritual,
it evidences care and compassion,
joy,
responsive mindfulness,
and an embodied esthetic awareness.
Multiple planes of voices radiating
in,
under,
and over layers around the arts.
A multi-layered complex interplay of dimensions,
which span breadth,
depth,
height,
and time,
a pedagogy of spirituality,
that informs and reforms our thinking,
Experiencing the world as 'flesh'--
a meshing of subject and object,
self and body,
and body and world,
all human beings need to breathe deeply to feel intensely alive.
I took some of my favorite passages and combined them into a poem of sorts.
Just like our art making and researching weaves around and through one another to form our curriculum and how we operate and exist in the world as educators, so too does this poem pull from various sections: cutting, pasting, bobbing and weaving together to form a completely new understanding:
(all lines taken from Rendering Dimensions of a Liminal Currere, Pauline Sameshima & Rita L. Irwin)
Non-linear, rhizomatic, and dynamically interwoven,
we follow the paths of the liminal edge;
not seeking the nostalgic desire to leave where we are and travel across to the other place,
but to travel between and along the edges
of here and there,
in the unsettled liminal space.
The development of curriculum is spiritual,
in that artful practice,
creativity,
and creative acts,
are spiritual passages between,
a translation of a joyful wisdom 'thinking maybe',
a pedagogy of spirituality that informs and reforms our thinking.
Serenity is described as inner peace,
not happiness but a 'comeback to happiness'
in spite of suffering,
Living in the ether is thus living in a mode of inquiry,
that is sensually
and sensitively charged.
Artful research is spiritual,
it evidences care and compassion,
joy,
responsive mindfulness,
and an embodied esthetic awareness.
Multiple planes of voices radiating
in,
under,
and over layers around the arts.
A multi-layered complex interplay of dimensions,
which span breadth,
depth,
height,
and time,
a pedagogy of spirituality,
that informs and reforms our thinking,
Experiencing the world as 'flesh'--
a meshing of subject and object,
self and body,
and body and world,
all human beings need to breathe deeply to feel intensely alive.