The Contiguous Gaze

This artwork belongs to the funded doctoral research project, titled: How Can We Teach/Learn Emotion Words and Complex Abstract Meanings? – A Relational A/r/tographic Conversation In-between Images and Words.

Nedasadat Sajadi

The University of Melbourne

Melbourne Graduate School of Education

 
 

This research, as a 50/50 creative thesis, was an a/r/tographic conversation between a written exegesis and an a/r/t exhibition held on April 1, 2022, at The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. This exhibition presented a series of artworks as research, including 'The Contiguous Gaze' sculpture.

 
 

'The Contiguous Gaze' is a papier mâché sculpture made by the PhD candidate, Nedasadat Sajadi, which was placed on a wall within the exhibition. This sculpture included three masks of the artist, researcher, and teacher, as well as the body of a becoming a/r/tographer learning to gaze back and forth at their journey and experiences through the eyes of the contiguous roles.