
Art-time continuum: Time as material in art and musical practice. Collaborative and forthcoming Arts-Based Research inquiry with partner. As parent artists, the material that we need most is time. Offered is how we imagine time as material and what can happen when time becomes our material. Art becomes our practice, theoretical framework, and methodology as we bind, knit, and splice markers of time, creating new material conceptualizations of time. Learning with each other and through our art practice, we invite new potentialities for understanding ephemeral moments and their continuum in new formations. As partners, we embark on an artistic collaboration of a post-growth and ecological-focused fiber art process and draw inspiration from the music composition style of musique concrète to conceptualize the first year of our children’s lives through art. This inquiry is interdisciplinary, entangles and traverses across our fields of art education and ethnomusicology. The making of art, expressed in fiber art objects and musical composition, generates an invitation for us to think differently of future possibilities through the ability to playback (music) and re-create materials, unraveling how art allows us to move across time in a non-linear way, to play with the past, present, and future.