Communicating arts-based inquiry : there are no flesh tones in black or white

![CDATA[This chapter is about communicating arts-based inquiry, about processes and techniques that we consciously apply to the doing and writing up of our work. Working within the discipline of social science, our work is different because we use art making and art thinking in our research, which are processes and concepts traditionally assigned to other scholarly fields. Theoretically, we could say that our work sits within ‘emergent methods’ that cross disciplinary boundaries to “explore new ways of thinking about and framing knowledge construction”. Personally, we could explain our approaches by the fact that we just don’t like to conform. But it’s more than that. We take issue with traditional academic conventions that separate art from science, that insist that objectivity is achievable, and that ultimately excludes difference. We take issue with neat, box-ticked research reports where the writer is hidden and where uncertainty, imagination, and emotion are shamed, particularly if they are the emotions of the writer. We want our writing to be felt, as the lives that we examine are also felt.]]