ABSTRACT
Reporting about a project with male home carers, this paper presents some of the interactions, which took place between the participants as they got to know each other, becoming part of each other’s lives. Presenting information from the artist’s personal diaries as someone who has lived in the participating community all his life, he attempts to reveal the importance of seemingly insignificant data by making diary entries after each event and reflecting on them at a later date. These have been selected to compare the similarities between Tim Ingold’s descriptions of creativity and Grant Kester’s model for a dialogical aesthetic, which highlights key points in the engagement processes of a socially engaged artist. These reflective notes, made while the experiences were still fresh in his mind, help to illustrate the impact not only on the participants but also upon the artist as a participant in the social process.
