This article discusses collaborative meaning-making in arts-based research. It introduces a project in which an artist-researcher invited a physician and an art historian to help to interpret medical students' hand-made drawings of the female reproductive system and the conception process. The authors elaborate on different viewpoints and improvisation during the data interpretation, and discuss how these were founded on, and disrupted, their professional roles in various ways. The article discusses how the different interpretations of the students' drawings complemented or conflicted with each other. It also discusses the use of associations and humor in these interpretations, and the experiences of emotional discomfort during the process.
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