Patterns Repeat: Transformation Through Creativity in Research about Land and Colonialism
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https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29387Keywords:
creative process, transformation, colonialism, intergenerational trauma, relationship with landAbstract
Within arts-based research, creativity becomes methodology. The art-work created may or may not participate in disrupting and renewing our world, may or may not bear its own heart beat. In this reflective and lyrical paper, I explore, in form and content, sacredness in the creative process and its potential for creating transformative works capable of disrupting deep patterns of colonial violence and loss. Sitting with a research question of what it means to “listen” to the land, I story experiences within and outside doctoral studies in which I grow and learn through Western, Indigenous and my ancestral Irish-Celtic teachings.References
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