Creative artefact: the taste of translation; and Exegesis: the inner outed

How is new knowledge produced? For Deleuze & Guattari, 'the new is an outside that exists within this world, and as such it must be constructed' (O’Sullivan & Zepke 2008, p.2). My work demonstrates that practice-led research offers a liberating framework toward such 'production of the new' (O’Sullivan & Zepke 2008, p.2), an opportunity for the intuitive and creative wellspring of heart-knowing to cross-fertilise with the intellectual and reflective reservoir of the mind. Beginning with direct experience of the collective unconscious (Jung 1995), the research question I addressed in this project was: How do I bring inner knowing out onto an external plane? The particularities of my process toward the following research outcomes - an Exegesis titled The Inner Outed and a Creative Artefact, The Taste of Translation - documents how creative practice unlocks intellectual understanding as much as reflective inquiry underpins and enables ongoing creativity. In this way, research and practice coalesce to form a seamless whole. A rhizomatic methodology was used to explore an expanding fabric of interconnections, 'all manner of ‘becomings' (Deleuze & Guattari 2004, p.24), my writing the tool to chart territories explored as they were traversed. The rhizomes of both exegesis and artefact thus form a single 'plane of consistency' (Deleuze & Guattari 2004, p.9), of becoming knowledge, where thematic concepts such as engaging the other, memory, landscape and translation are interrogated together with what it means to love: 'Love is as love does […] We do not have to love. We choose to love' (Peck 1978, p.71). This submission is a small offering to the conversation on peace consciousness in a post-9/11 world which seems to have forgotten how to love according to the perennial philosophy (Huxley 2009) - that different religious traditions may appear to divide but compassion conjoins us all; that we are one humanity with many faces; and that we live in a world where, as Buddhist teachings suggest, love is “at the centre of all things and all things are the same thing' (Kerouac 2008, p.137).