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This exemplar offers a mixed methods approach useful in the emerging field of post-colonial and place studies. Autoethnography a self-reflected form of writing and researching that examines the researchers experience is combined with a painterly approach, the way painters hold, build and integrate multiple knowledges to form an artwork (Reader, 2008). Here, related images or real-life moments construct an unfolding narrative of place, what it is and what it means to the researcher. The term "sensibility" captures a large part of coming to know a place and entering into a deeper relationship with the local environment (Abram, 1996). This dataset exemplar includes a photographic sequence captured over a 30-minute walk (1.5 km) at Curdimurka, Kati-Thanda Lake Eyre South in South Australia. Each image attempts to capture aspects that relate to: (i) the experience at the time; (ii) prior experience in the same or similar places; and (iii) common-sense assumptions contradicted by experience. The data are provided by Dr Paul Reader of the School of Education, University of New England, Australia and encourages viewers to understand how memories and images can help develop "a theory and practice of participating in living systems" (Rose, 2005, p. 205). The dataset will likely be of most use to artist-researchers and students working in post-colonial settings and place studies.

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