Moments of Home

Authors

  • Kathleen C. Sitter University of Calgary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29628

Abstract

Kathleen Sitter has created a short film exploring a parent and her children's lived experiences and responses to the early phases of Covid-19.

Author Biography

Kathleen C. Sitter, University of Calgary

Kathleen C. Sitter, PhD is a Canada Research Chair in Multisensory Storytelling in Research and Knowledge Translation, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Kathleen has worked with a variety of adults and youth in the areas of disability, mental health, human rights, and health care. Kathleen leads the Multisensory Studio, a lab that focuses on creating blended sensory and arts-based methods in accessible research designs and knowledge translation.

 

 

 

s

An intuitive self-portrait, inspired by the pieces inclluded in this journal that explore memory through multi-sensory experiences. I tried to create through various ways of knowing. I wanted to make something that you could run yur fingers along, and feel the different textures, the bumps in the grain of the wood, the brush strokes, the paper flowers, the cloth material, all of it. If you got close to it I wanted you to be able to smell the mix of coffee, acrylic paint, and the subtle aroma of dried flowers. I wanted to invoke textures through sight with various patterns and mark making. Lastly, I used past journal entries to create the flowers adding another layer of memory to the artwork that is unique and persona to me, reflecting on how each person's way of remembering is their own. Mihaela Slabe.

Downloads

Published

2022-07-15

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021): Multisensory Storytelling: Creating Different Forms of Knowing, Being and Living in our World

Section

Articles, Illustrations and Verse