Will I love Art Is a Way of Knowing?

Pat Allen demonstrates how art interpretation involves reflection on her creations in an ongoing process of responding creatively to their expression, as contrasted with explanation, analysis, and uncovering hidden ‘meaning.’ As authors say, writing helps them understand what they think, and thought keeps moving like a stream.  

I am often asked whether art-based research can present the art alone without commentary. Documentary films do this in their combination of film footage and narration, but with painting, dance, music, and other art forms, expository reflection suggests how the personal expression furthers understanding and usefulness to others.

Pat Allen models this process… show more.

As an anxious mother, I struggled to understand how my creative practice could help me through this trying stage of life.

This book was the first key to help me unlock how my creative practice could support my healing and help me learn more about myself. But most importantly, it gave me permission to proclaim that I could know and understand the world through my intimate creative expressions.

Part memoir, part instruction, this book provided the road map for who I am today: a woman who welcomes her suffering into the creative realm and watches it transform into insight.