This article explores poetic inquiry through a creation-research framework as a method of exploring issues surrounding identity and subjective relationality. As a Métis visual artist, poet and educator, the author explores knowledge and meaning based in ontological experience and Indigenous understandings of the subjective inward journey and its role in our relational interconnectedness. The implications of the connection between the inward and outward paradigms of experience, knowledge and knowing creates a space to value and honour our unique understanding of the world. Through a found poetry activity designed and implemented in the gallery space at the Tate Exchange, Liverpool, the author delves into a reflective analysis of the potential of understanding the Other within us and the Other in front of us through critical creative praxis in a generative public context.