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A/r/tography is a form of practice-based research that recognizes making, learning, and knowing as interconnected within the movement of art and pedagogical practices. Rather than discovering that which already exists, a/r/tography embraces each movement, each new idea, as a new reality (Irwin, 2013). It is a dynamic force that is forever becoming entangled in the materiality of all things, human and nonhuman. To do so, it embraces the practices of artists, researchers, and teachers/learners as a way to linger in this entanglement and to pursue the practice of living one’s inquiry. It is the engagement of practice that transforms our ideas into further practices. This openness allows a/r/tography to be used in multiple contexts. Moreover, a/r/tography embraces both artifacts and events as processes and products as it moves beyond researching possibilities to researching potential.“A/r/tography insists that whatever is already known is in the process of responding to the felt potential of what it may become”(Triggs, Irwin, & O’Donoghue, 2014, p. 255). Art practice demonstrates that we cannot stand outside of practice and apply it. Indeed, it is an emerging practice, a living practice. Whereas other forms of research are led by probable theory, plausible theory, and possible theory, a/r/tography is led by theorizing potential as it moves beyond the boundaries (O’Sullivan, 2001) of theory. A living practice is not about discovering knowledge but rather about “the feel of new forms of vitality”(Triggs et al., 2014, p. 256). Artists embrace the living of practice and becoming part of the variations within potential’s variations.“Potential is inexhaustible, and once …