ABSTRACT
In this paper, the author explores how lives might be creatively transformed through an openness to vulnerability. She begins with an exploration of vulnerability and love. Next, she look at the spaces of vulnerability through the metaphors of a threshold, a liminal period or a margin. Finally, the author describes examples of creative transformation. Pamela writes that “vulnerability locates the reader in a space of freedom; that is, the people are free for enhancing life as dynamic, affective and transformative”. Pamela describes that “life is dynamic insofar as a continuous, creative process”. Chicago was marginalized as a female artist in the 1960s when women’s artistic abilities were not recognized as mainstream. During the weeks that the author cared for Pamela before her death, her academic work about vulnerability became real and embodied.
