God, gods, myth and facts

Blaiki, has chosen to approach her research through the processes described by Cole & Knowles (2007), which requires the researcher to develop their work inquiry using more than one art method.  When writing her poetry, she reconstructed conversations through the use of ‘cutting, pasting and eliminating text’ (Blaikie, 2009) , this allowed her produce poetry which was both sequential and logical in manner. She futher applied poetic wrting techniques in order to create the imagery which she was trying to convey.  Figure 1:, Fiona Blaikie (2009), Painting of The Black Stretch Pants. For the practical visual aspect of the research, she then combined photographs and text in order to produce a collage which was reflective of the person or subject.  These were then converted these into paintings, which are meant to be reflective of the participants. Figure 1, this is an example of one of her poetry and visual inquiry output. 

According to Blaikie, when it comes to art-informed research, its main purpose is to advance in the understanding of the ‘human condition by using unconventional means of inquiry, while also expanding on the on its audience. This type of research is a combination of language, methods, visual and performative arts so as to on the understanding of academic inquiry. (Blaikie, 2009) This kind of research requires the researcher to have an underlining moral purpose for the study, because according to Cole and Knowles, Art-informed research is meant to stand for something. Besides the moral aspect to the research they have also distinguished that this type of research is meant to produce both a written text and a visual image, while also possessing meaning. (Cole, 2007).