ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on three reflective 'case examples' to exemplify the use of visual practice as a powerful imaginarium for apprehending the world in a non-judgemental way: radical educators and the visual image; ochre and defiance; and war technologies and unwritten letters. It focuses on the construction of a mural by an artist whose sight is rapidly diminishing. The creation of the mural is a celebration of visual and tactile senses providing bold opportunities to see, feel and smell the artwork. The junction between tacit and explicit knowledge resonates with the kind of space that exists between textual and visual representations of ideas. Critical educators have actively worked at this junction, trying to tap into the energy of learners whose knowledges spring from the tacit domain and tear at the fabric of explicit knowledge, so often given primacy in tertiary institutions.
