Structures and Mappings: Research as Narratives

Nesteruk, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-2422 (2025) Structures and Mappings: Research as Narratives. Cubic Journal. pp. 46-57. ISSN 2589-7098 (In Press)

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Abstract

This visual research explores processes of mapping, structures, and form as content. A series of maps present processes of time, and research narratives, truths and fictions. From Tolstoy’s use of the present in war and peace, slowing down time, and cinematic conventions, to T. S. Eliot’s ideas of past, present and futures, in Four Quartets. Michail Bakhtin describes a sense of epic time, as a closed, historical past. This research presents research and journeys, as open forms, through poetry, music by Beethoven, and works by Samuel Beckett. A visual essay presents nine images, including original works by the artist in relation to music, and my current project: Recipes for Baking Bread. Colour, forms, closed, and open truths, structures, and storytelling, in PhD enquiries.