We, the Orphans of the Self is an art research project developed within the Seminar Research in the Arts ―a fourth year class in the Visual Arts program at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. Guided by the questions: How does an artist write? And what kind of writing do images request? and using writing as it were an art material, students and professors worked together on what could be understood as disciplinary writing in the arts. Always taking into account the epistemological implications that are at stake between images and words, each student developed its own writing reflecting on what is a reader, what is authority, and how to use words beyond the explanatory mechanism. This project was developed during the student protests in 2019-21, a context that was not ignored. Thus, this project not only works on research methodologies, but through an intergeneratio...