The above statement comes from Greene’s preface to Landscapes of Learning (1978, page 2). As she sets up her book, the role of the landscape takes center stage to the process of learning and understanding the world. The landscape is the lived life of an individual, the experiences that create one’s world. As an artist, the concept of this landscape opens up a new way of conceptualizing what happens to each of us as we learn. Just like portraiture as a research method changed my own perspective on my role as an educator, a researcher, a student and an artist, the landscape has opened up a way for me to understand Polyani’s personal knowledge in a new light….an aesthetic one