How I Found My Way to the Written Word Through Visual Art  

作　　者：Laura Donkers 

机构地区：[1]Isle of North Uist

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2014年第7期511-516,共6页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The author＇s practice-led research explores ＂the act of living.＂ In order to advance this idea, the author has acquired skills in investigation and expresses her thinking through a descriptive and explanatory visual language. The author＇s learning journey, while not unique, has not been an ordinary one. Initial academic failure to achieve in the school education system contributed to her choosing a life working on the land and harbouring the belief that she was unable to learn academically. Still, the author has gained a rich base of physical knowledge and experience through the traditional oral route including learning interpersonal communication through body language and vocal tonality. The author has used this intuitive knowledge to develop an arts practice where she explores the bio-cultural links between people and the lands they inhabit, creating works that aim to extend knowing through emphasising the experience and atmosphere of landscape. At this time, when our lives have become increasingly encoded and intellectually based, the author shares a belief with American philosopher Eugene Gendlin （b. 1926） that the ＂felt sense＂ can be developed in order to enable us to engage more fully with the world around us. The author explores this idea in her visual art but also realizes the need to express it in writing, both in order to reach a wider public and because of the possibilities offered by the written word to make public which is private and held deep within.

关 键 词：embodied thinking primary observation open work FIELDWORK drawing interconnection interaction felt sense 

分 类 号：TP317.2[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论] J0-05[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]