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Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1, 118-145 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800405278778

Painting a Landscape of Abortion

The Fusion of Embodied Art

Jeanine Marie Minge

University of South Florida

This article explores the author's journey through the right to choose. The author fuses her experience in this text so the reader may visualize and reexperience the emotional tensions involved in her decision to have an abortion. She envisions forms of inquiry as atoms in constant motion. She borrows the concept of fusion, understanding the process as two lighter nuclei colliding to form a heavier particle—atoms change, fusion creates energy, energy radiates. The fusion of embodied art is the process of combining art forms as inquiry to illuminate different corners of understanding. The author is the nuclear reactor, forcing elements to collide to see what is illuminated. She invites others to combine and connect different modes of inquiry together. This fusion of embodied art uses painting, writing, and performance to re-create and offer a space that might connect, perhaps even through intense disconnect, ideas, feelings, responses, and knowing about abortion.

Key Words: abortion • autoethnography • fusion • arts-based inquiry • art


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