Creativity, imagination, learning and pedagogy are processes we feel we have intention with but are able to be intuitive with at the same time. Processes are formulaic however there can be a shift in change and a moment of not knowing, directed by curiosity and realised via play. Spaces Between takes you on a journey, making sense of the space and time travelled when experiencing this transition; a sensory and multi-layered experience of a liminal realm. This space, connecting inner and outer worlds (Winnicott, 1958) is emergent, speculative and internalised as personal revelations take place.

 

My praxis began as a pedagogical discovery, taking me on an outward journey travelling an evolving pathway and retrieving theoretical puzzle pieces; making sense of my formal art teaching, photographic practice and research. I have married up multiple identities as teacher, artist, leader, facilitator, carer, learner and student with political and moral views regarding places of education, realising frustrations and making comparisons with pedagogical experiences. My making, planning, researching, playing and figuring out has led me to a familiar place, a place where I was all along. My outer journey has led me full circle, inwardly to myself and to the darkroom. I have travelled the spaces between; a transition from not knowing to being aware, from an outer space to somewhere internal, from the physical to the imaginative, from something familiar to a place that is changed; from the classroom to the darkroom. The difference is now I have an altered position within that space. Everything is the same, yet different. And so, a new beginning starts.