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Drawing care
The illustrated journal’s “path to place”
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Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism
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Naturalists argue that the greatest threat to the natural world may be our “extinction of experience” with it. We know that place matters, but what can work to restore care between people and place? In this article, I will argue that illustrated journals can reinvigorate our experience with the world. By including text and image, science and art, illustrated journals incorporate different ways of knowing. Drawing draws us into the world as we pay attention to easily missed details. Writing complements drawing by providing a space for synthesizing or imagining about the observed. Like any skilled practice, journaling transforms our understanding of the world. My illustrated field journals began when I sensed that care for today’s world demanded more tools than what my training as an ecologist, alone, could offer. Illustrated journaling can begin with a few simple drawing and writing exercises—several of which I will describe in this article. As an immersive practice in place, the process of illustrated journals matters more than the product. Page by page, illustrated journals recognize the interpretive encounters so foundational to worldmaking and, in doing so, cultivate the deep attention to, and experience of, the world that is our first step toward care.
Biological illustrationDrawing -- Scientific applicationsScienctific literature -- Illustration
Taylor Francis
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2017.1404723
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15313220.2017.1404723
1531-3239
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