The author's autobiographical poem [inspired by George Ella Lyon (1999)], marked the beginning of an arts-based inquiry into a question of identity that took further shape through a video-artwork, "The Evolution of an Art Teacher: Where I'm From." Arts-based research is a methodology that uses a myriad of forms and combinations of creative arts experiences for ways of understanding through the discovery of new knowledge and meaning. Beginning at the level of the body, the video progresses through images of learning, teaching, art, and art making; images of performance and identity space. The context becomes an imperative component to the usefulness of poetry and video in this paper. This paper is taken from research practice that has been represented as art work. (Auto)biography is used for making personal meaning and understanding identity. Framed by the understanding of human experience that Jacques Lacan described as the three registers of the Real, the "Imaginary", and the "Symbolic", this paper aims to unpack the continual formation, recognition and changing identity of an art educator. (Contains 4 figures.)