Susan Walsh participated in a collaborative project with 9 teachers in an Artography-like inquiry into the teaching experience. Walsh categorized the collected pieces of poetry, imagery, and text into:
Eyes / Blood / Ears
Eyes: Performance, expectation, stakeholders, panopticon, gaze, surveillance
Blood: Intensity of the experience
Ears: Listening, being present, discomfort with messiness and not knowing
In what ways will I represent and reflect on my teaching experience? It is embodied and expressed through the body, but after I leave the space of the classroom, I always provide an opportunity to revisit my senses. I keep a journal where I draw and write about the events of the day.
My Eyes: Gaze not with authority. Look with wonder and curiosity, softness and sincerity.
My Blood: I am a body and living, attune and alive.
Ears: I don’t expect to be heard, I want to be listened to. Students need to be listened too. I will listen to the silence or sound.