Backs and Fronts: Stitching Thread and Thought Through Manning, Methodology, and Art

This paper started with a messy embroidery back and question: What happens when we play with/in mess, attending to how front/back, process/product, art/research, are counterparts in the event? To answer, passed writing techniques through each other, exploring what becomes possible you think make relationally, that is, between. Here, stitch together Erin Manning’s theorization of event our experience. As attuned ourselves thinking back-and-front mattered, found artful inquiry required us rethink both thought thought. Thus, methodology front was made this event, as result passing Finally, invite readers experiment crafting their own methodologies between by flipping over research hoop, thereby opening its more-than.