Reasons for Creative Collaboration



The talented Jane Wheeler.

 

Last night we went public with
Defining Commonality: A Handmade Dictionary

 a collaborative project between photographer, Jane Wheeler, and myself.

Thanks to Full Circle and to all the people who came, it turned out to be a party that was not only fun, but one that mirrored the work itself.

In conversations, I heard a common interest in what language can do, much talk about sustainability in our neighborhoods, plain old catching up,  plus, delight in looking deep into at the images.

I do not claim that collaborating is easy, but there are surprising rewards. Surprise itself, for one.




You get out of your own head and into another's.

You can let go and have fun.

You keep working toward something you can't know until it's made.

 

People talk and ask about your work along the way.


 

You and your creative partner are forever linked in someone else's hand. 



When someone buys your work it's 2x the pleasure.

Your work becomes grounded and coupled beyond your control,
and more than the sum of its parts.


 

Defining Commonality: A Handmade Dictionary

Come look what we made:

a little library of dictionaries, handmade references sourced with Jane Wheeler’s creative photographic eye and my companion lyric poems, each a one-of-a-kind work of art.

 

 

 Since the beginning of this year Jane Wheeler and I have been carrying on a conversation about form and color and composition. More specifically we’ve been working together and talking about neighborhood patterns, local beauty, and how to sustain a sense of the common good.

Expressed in these photographs and poems, this conversation is ready to be offered to you, our friends and neighbors. We hope you will join us in discovering what we hold in common, and where and what we find beautiful.

Art Opening

Full Circle Books ( in 50 Penn Place)

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019

7: p.m.