ABSTRACT
A constant touchstone is the idea of the autoethnographer as bricoleur: “A complex, dense, reflexive, collage-like creation that represents the researcher’s images, understandings and interpretations of the world or phenomenon under analysis”. I. Sava and Nuuitinen discuss a process of responding to art using text as an opportunity to develop creative and personal knowledge that they describe as: something strongly experiential, sensuous, multi-representative, a fleeting shadow, a shimmer, and ever changing. Maybe art is art only when it gives nothing, but “only” makes something possible, makes the spectator give meaning to a piece of art and to the feeling and thoughts this piece of art awakens about oneself and one’s life. The author problematised women writing autobiographically in academic texts, agreeing with B. Tedlock that, “women’s ethnographic and autobiographical intentions are often powered by the motive to convince readers of the author’s self-worth, to clarify and authenticate their self-images”.
