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[Well] Not Being - Birthing Yonat Nitzan-Green (7468274) Creative arts and writing Embodied knowledge Maternal subjectivity Flexible drawing Contact Improvisation Practice-led Practice-led research <p dir="ltr">This is a Practice-led Fine Art PhD research. The key research question is: How might drawing help understand maternal subjectivity in its entanglement with pregnancy and intersection with immigrant mothering? A hybrid of methodologies is used, comprised of Action research, Autoethnography, and drawing where the methodology is embedded in the practice. Yonat Nitzan-Green developed a technique that includes industrial foam sheet, graphite powder, latex, and silver ink to produce a 3D flexible, elastic drawing. Drawing defined as Diffractive, Performative, Relational (DPR) enables to explore embodied knowledge. A triangulation has been developed, consists of DPR drawing in dialogue with a performative archive, entitled Hosting Yonat as a Young Mother (HYYM). This triangulation enables a critical reflective dialogue between the young and mature mother parts leading to a transformative maternal subjectivity. Furthermore, maternal knowledge is made explicit, thus can be shared and preserved. The research builds on Betterton (2014), Baraitser (2009; 2019), Ettinger (2006), Neimanis (2019), and de Zegher (2006).</p><table><tr><td><p dir="ltr">© Yonat Nitzan-Green</p></td></tr></table><p></p> 2026-09-23T12:30:20Z Dataset Media 10.17028/rd.lboro.33027662.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/media/_Well_Not_Being_-_Birthing/33027662 CC BY-NC 4.0