God, gods, myth and facts

In my B.Tech work I had explored the idea of using two interdisciplinary art forms in order to depict/ translate my chosen bridal narrative. I had focused my attention specifically on artists who had applied the same concepts such as Erismann, who had done so through collaboration with other arts.  In a report I recently came across I found an example of Interdisciplinary Collaboration which occurred between poets and scientist in order to experiment with poetic inquiry within the science field. This involved the exploration between of the differences, similarities and incompatibilities which existed between the two fields (María E. Fernández-Giménez, 2018); this will be something I would also have to take into consideration when conducting my own research using poetry and jewellery as my bases for inquiry into my theme. 

One of the relevant literatures which I have come across was an article entitled: “Poetic Inquiry as a Research and Engagement Method in Natural Resource Science”, written by three authors. In the article there was a section which discussed Poetic Analysis and the process they had adopted for their own research.  What these researchers had done was to create poetry from their qualitative data so as to observe whether or not poetic analysis would result in a new perspective or understanding of ‘social-ecological dynamics’ in a given area, which they had previously analyzed in 2012 using ‘conventional qualitative coding analysis.  They had decided to approach the writing by using a singular transcript form their interviews with their respondent to create 27 poems, which comprised solely on the respondent’s own words, mainly focusing on words which had best articulated meaning most relevant to their chosen theme. These words were then rearranged into order to create the p...

There are various ways in which a researcher could adopt the use of Poetic Inquiry in research such as writing a poem based on the qualitative data which has been gathered through interview transcripts. The researcher would then write poems based either on the research process, the participants, or collaborate with the participant to write the said poem.  According to Faulkner poetry “…embodies experience to show truths that are not usually evident”, it offers research a unique portrayal and expression of the human condition; which ultimately allows for new understanding of any given subject or theme as inquiry forces the researcher to reflect on the entire research process. (María E. Fernández-Giménez, 2018) 

Art-based Research can be described as a set of methods chiefly focused on the various divisions within the arts, such as music, visual arts etc. Therefore ABR would be involved throughout the research process, which would include “data generation, analysis, interpretation, representation, and presentation” (María E. Fernández-Giménez, 2018).