1. Beginnings of an auto ethnographic enquiry into
creative practice-led research.
Alison F Bell

2. What follows is a discovery of what is not known.
Through correlating texts and images, gaps appear;
thoughts have an opportunity to surface and formulate.

3. “Husserl’s writings seem to suggest that the
life-world has various layers, that underneath the
layers of diverse cultural life – worlds there
reposes a deeper more unitary life-world, always
already there, beneath all our cultural
acquisitions, a vast and continually overlooked
dimension of experience.”
Abrams,1997:41-42

4. Our multilayered
world is lived through
the experiencing self.
It is by exploring the
world sensorially that
we might recognise
our human-ness.

5. Intuitive response on reading of Husserl’s life-world; layers and depth

6. It is not what is seen.
It is what is known forever in the mind”
Agnes Martin,1991:15

7. ‘Intuitions are holistic interpretations based on analogies
drawn from a largely unconscious database’.
Guy Claxton, 2000:50

8. Knowing and not knowing how one knows:
I ‘know’ this……….how?

9. “To live and work by inspiration you have to stop thinking.
You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly”
Agnes Martin, 1991:137

10. •creating alongside reading
•the one informs the other
•blurring the edges
•merging
•reflection in action
•reflection on action
•becoming…………

11. ‘Sensing’ connections between what has gone before,
what is to come and the now………….

12. ‘While in the liminal state, human beings are stripped of
anything that might differentiate them from their fellow
human beings—they are in between the social
structure, temporarily fallen through the cracks, so to
speak, and it is in these cracks, in the interstices of
social structure, that they are most aware of
themselves’.
Charles la Shure, 2005

13. Dark space and liminality;
in between, on the threshold, transitioning, hovering…..