Working Collaboratively

Recently I got together with two good friends to experiment with various art techniques. We try to do this on a regular basis when time permits. It is such a delight for me to do this. I am increasingly inspired by these two amazing women, they are so fully talented, open and supportive. Each of us is quite different but I believe our souls come from the same creative place and hence we share a wonderful bond. Our last meeting felt extra special to me because I had not taken the opportunity to create very much at home in the last month. So here we were in my friend's beautiful light filled dining room surrounded by the art materials we had all dumped on the table to share communally. What a feast. And that was just the art table! Before we started making art we had been served a delicious Italian meal so beautifully prepared that it was an art in and of itself. I felt pure joy while we were talking, laughing, mucking, cutting, gluing, pasting, inking, rolling and finally printing the collagraphs we had created. We were fully engaged in the creative process and I truly felt for the first time that I wasn't attached to the out come. I just played a bit. A few days later I looked at my prints and really wasn't that inspired, but I let myself just be, and told myself to withhold judgment and soon something wonderful happened, ideas just came pouring forth and over the next few days the work began to take shape. Some examples of the results follow.