Research in Action methodology has been used in order to find answers to the research question and the questions which followed as the research evolved. A systematic approach has been implemented from the outset of the research. This included a daily studio practice, development of methods of inquiry, data collection, analysis and processing. Tacit knowledge has been re-visited through a variety of methods, primarily performative acts performed by a persona called ima.

ima is derived from invisible mother-artist and the word mother in Hebrew, my language of origin. This method was used in order to deconstruct the cultural constructs Motherhood and artist, as well as Kibbutz childhood. Invisibility refers to a sense of disappearance that prevailed in my experience, both in the Kibbutz childhood and the maternal. ima is informed by the writings of Clarisa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run With the Wolves, 1998, which explores and analyses women’s psyche, supported by a Jungian psychoanalysis. A method of writing diaries in the stream of consciousness has been deployed as a strategy to enable a way into my own unconscious.