Storyboard: Living inquiries, computer-generated

As the a/r/tographer leading this participatory research, my chosen method of rendering data throughout this dissertation was storyboarding. Each storyboard presents visual, metaphoric openings to contemplate my own identity and migration experience amidst the voices of my participants. The artmaking and participatory activities have woven their ways in and out of my thinking as a/r/tographer. Through reflection on our digital interactions, what evolved for each participant became more important to my praxis in depicting how my own living inquiry continued to grow and change throughout the research. By rendering the data through living inquiry, I created a storyboard combining some of the visual images, experiences, and sentiments articulated and expressed by the participants. In other words, the storyboard is an artefact of our living inquiries. The elements I included in the rendering below were to make sense of the data derived from elements of the participants’ living inquiries that resonated with mine, such as missing Greece like I would miss a friend who I craved to see and reconnect with. The cultural elements such as Greek dance, costumes, music, and language are aspects that Greek migrants of a diaspora seem to cling to or embrace while also creating a life in Australia, wearing different masks depending on the contexts. With COVID-19, this mask became not only a metaphorical, but also a physical marker of emotional and social distance and a barrier to intimacy or expressing the true self. In the storyboard, the different voices and perspectives were incorporated to describe a unifying or shared experience. I selected and assigned images to the concepts that the participants shared, which resonated with my own experiences, and organised them into a visual artefact.