What Remains When Research and Art Meet

Authors

  • Ronald J. Pelias Southern Illinois University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29835

Keywords:

art inquiry, poetic inquiry, aesthetic response, audiencing, empathy

Abstract

Abstract: This brief piece describes the author’s experience of encountering art. After several initial claims about meeting art, the author offers a poem as an act of offering an artwork when reflecting about art.

Author Biography

Ronald J. Pelias, Southern Illinois University

Ronald J. Pelias is an Emeritus Professor from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His most recent books are The Creative Qualitative Researcher, Lessons in Aging and Dying: A Poetic Autoethnography, and Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities.

Chromosome Territories, 2022 (P. Sameshima). Artwork: wire and beads arranged in a circular manner against winter trees with blue sky in the background.

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Published

2025-10-26

How to Cite

Pelias, R. J. (2025). What Remains When Research and Art Meet. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 9(2), 443–445. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29835

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2025): Artful Futures: Reflections on the Evolution of the Arts in Research

Section

ARI Special Issue

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