ABSTRACT
This is a chapter in ten short parts, a movement through the cut of a minor arcana. The initial fragments intertwine autobiography and an inspirited Aokian sensibility for both eclectic and idiosyncratic method. It is a sharing shaped by enabling constraints, and an homage to the author's graduate experience at The University of British Columbia alongside the course offering by William Pinar on the scholarship of Ted. T. Aoki. The challenges and entanglements of both studio and study become an Aokian Web of the author's own making—an entwinement of a/r/tography, curreré, autobiography, and writing: Both a living and poetic inquiry. The chapter concludes with a three-fold layering that dwells on a recent art education conference, the author's arts-based research, and the offering of a found poem in a temporal reading of Curriculum in a new key: The collected works of Ted T. Aoki.
