Thesis

White, H. (2021) Ways of Becoming: Transforming the self and connecting with nature through somatic creativity. MA Thesis/ Object of Memory / Memoire.

A transformational journey of the self; a story of personal discovery and Becoming. In this auto-ethnographic narrative art, philosophy and theory become critical, reflective and relational tools in a search to understand the body, the self and nature. Inspired by a medical condition (fibroids) and feminist theory (post feminist) I have established a new methodology of somatic creativity; placing the materiality of the female body and my lived experience into art. Through narrative storytelling, life experiences, poetry, somatic creativity, artistic references and philosophical ideas, I explore self awareness; unknowing, discovery and knowing.

This book is a creative return to the body, where art, the body, nature and the self are constantly evolving and transforming; in a cyclical, inter-relational and ongoing Becoming.

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