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Drawing on Curiosity: Between Two Worlds
Author(s) -
Wigglesworth Ron
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of art and design education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1476-8070
pISSN - 1476-8062
DOI - 10.1111/jade.12159
Subject(s) - curiosity , reflexivity , narrative , intuition , visual arts education , aesthetics , visual arts , phenomenon , psychology , space (punctuation) , epistemology , sociology , the arts , cognitive science , art , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , social science , literature
This narrative of my research on drawing shares my experience of relearning drawing by hand and how the act of drawing can stimulate curiosity. This article examines its potential to enhance learning/observation in science. It describes a kinaesthetic drawing methodology and addresses pedagogical solutions for overcoming a student's declaration that ‘I can't draw’. This art creation experience was an interdisciplinary study in the faculties of art, science and education. My claim is that a hands‐on, interactive approach to learning is at play where strategies of creating images are not predetermined. What emerges is both a subjective and objective phenomenon. As knowledge production arises after the fact of drawing, an emergent process allows for reflexive methodology and intuition to come into play. As Derrida describes in Memoirs of the Blind , drawing emerges from the temporal space between the seeing and the unfolding of the drawing. This art‐based research flows in the direction of reflective practice‐based research through drawing, to address these questions by calling on the tactile and kinaesthetic dimensions of sense that drawing can engender.