Recently, I collaborated with photographer and friend Star Rush on three pieces for the French blog, Une Plume, un Regard. The blog publishers planned to use only one of the image-with-text pieces, but then chose to publish all three! You can view them here:
http://www.uneplume-unregard.fr/en/sirens
http://www.uneplume-unregard.fr/en/canister
http://www.uneplume-unregard.fr/en/balancing
Productive collaboration results in something greater that what each team member produces alone. The creative interaction is a chemistry, a force, and it makes something totally new.
Choreographer Twyla Tharp's book, The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together, is a field guide to the collaborative process. It's full of practical ideas for both businesses and artists, and it's fun to read about her collaborations with Elvis Costello, Milos Forman, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and many others. It's a quick read and a wonderful reminder to join together and make good!
Michele, your collaborations with Star are inspired! I absolutely love the prose and photo collective. For me, they ARE the essence of a guess about ... the stories we create when we don't know the story.
ReplyDeleteKat, thank you SO much! Those collaborations were a joy. I've been thinking about what motivates me to work, besides a paycheck, and productive, especially creative, collaboration is one of those things. Wishing you time to explore and create! -- Michele
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