This article introduces encounters between the researcher and toddlers, in which the interaction is performed and data primarily constructed through the arts, and the encounters seen as aestheticinterviews. The aim of the article is to exemplify, explore, and discuss such an arts-based data gathering, and to elicit how understanding this as interviews may put forward other nuances of such a methodology. Although the method has obvious resemblances with observation methods, the energy and intervention on behalf of the researcher is most similar to the qualitative interview, keeping the relational qualities from the interview at the forefront. Exemplified by a fieldwork in a Norwegian day-care center and inspired by interview theories, early childhood research, arts-based research, and more, the article questions the dominance of the verbal language in interviews, and discusses the core of the interview as a relational interchange of views, dialogue, interaction, and as aesthetic habits of mind.
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