Cultivating potential-harvesting wisdom: An a/r/tographical illumination of mentorship

As artists/teacher/researchers, our collaborative process deeply explores mentorship through a verbal and visual dialogue illuminating a sense of profound trust and its development over time. Our shared artistic process created a space for becoming. The shared experience of co-creating is echoed in the reflective exchanges that evolved as we collaboratively developed our pictorial vision of mentorship simultaneously. Our experience of co-creating, while simultaneously recalling key mentorship moments from our history together, became a site of growth, rich and complex, mapping a story of mentorship across time. This a/r/tographical research brings to light a theory of mentoring that was revealed through the process of creating.