Open AccessReimagining Cancer through Painting: An Arts-based Authoethnography
Author(s) -
Christine Dunagin-Miller,
Jodi Kaufmann
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
art/research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-3771
DOI - 10.18432/r2h05h
Subject(s) - painting , narrative , autoethnography , the arts , mythology , deconstruction (building) , transformative learning , transformational leadership , narrative inquiry , aesthetics , schema (genetic algorithms) , sociology , art , visual arts , psychology , literature , gender studies , social psychology , pedagogy , computer science , biology , ecology , machine learning
We interweave arts-based inquiry, painting, and autoethnography, to critically examine one researcher's fearful narratives around cancer, death, dying, and family myths. These methods give us the distance to deconstruct Christine's past schema in order to take away its powerful influence on her life. This destabilized illness narrative leads to a transformational narrative of peace. Arts-based inquiry invites the viewer/reader to engage in similar acts of deconstruction and transformation.