This paper considers about a way of knowing peculiar to the creation of visual arts. Inspired by the 'Mnemosyne atlas' of German art historian Aby Moritz Warburg, we pay attention to the image atlas, capable of generating new meanings out of the arrangement of different images. Firstly, we discuss the trend of art and research in relation to the image atlas. Especially we are interested in Arts-Based Research （ABR） which identifies creative practice with research. Secondly, the second author who is at the same time artist, researcher, and teacher, scrutinizes autoethnographically her art work of an image atlas, created as an outcome of ABR. Lastly, we examine theoretically the possibilities of the making of image atlas as a practice of ABR. The disposition and layers of images enfolding multiple judgements, and their interruption, enable us to access to an alternative way of knowing.
