In this article, we take a retrospective look at a prior collaboration that involved the process of making art together, dialogue, and sharing stories of experience. More specifically, we share with you some of the storied text fragments that were elicited when we looked again, and together, at our very first co-created hybrid image. By putting forward our cultural storied texts, we—two women academics who identify with the experience of being an immigrant—wish to contribute to ongoing discussions on the value of fostering the cultural imagination through artful community-based approaches that invite the creation of our images and incite the telling of our stories, in our own voices. As well, we hope to illustrate how the stories that surfaced from/on/into/through our re-engagement with our co-created image of a mermaid helped us come to deeper understandings of our cultural hybridity, characterized primarily by living, learning, and knowing in spaces of in-betweenness.
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