ABSTRACT
This piece portrays an autobiographical tracing of a Chinese Canadian artist, researcher, and teacher’s experiences in various art, education, and art education contexts across Hong Kong, Toronto, and Vancouver. Told chronologically, the narrative threads the author’s understandings from continuously making turns and crossings in the past 30+ years: between being/becoming a student and a teacher in heritage language schools and higher education settings; between understandings of identity from exhibitions; between technical and humanistic approaches to education; and between the social scientific traditions and the aesthetic, conceptual, philosophical traditions in her research studies. This immigration and coming-of-age story offers a glimpse of how the writer searches for a clearer sense of self in relation to her professional and pedagogical identities while living in fluid socio-cultural, political, and economic landscapes. The author grows to embrace fuller ways of connecting with others that honor aesthetic, affective, phenomenological, and philosophical understandings of the world.
