Don MacDougall's death was a rupture in our community of artist scholar educators. After all, how can we imagine our death? Heidegger (1953/2010) argues that death is 'eminent immanence' (pp. 241-251). For Derrida (1993), it is an aporia as it is something un/imaginable as a living being. Attached to Don's research at the time of his death brought about encounters we had not expected. We take up our own creative research practices in response to his writing, through memory work, attentive engagement, and a commitment to deterritorilizations of representation. We encounter and interrupt his text through our responses as we study art encounters that examine affect, territorialization, power and art. [For the complete volume, "Arts-Research-Education: Connections and Directions. Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research," see ED610775.]