Round Table Collaboration

Project No.12 Progress

Works-in-progress and project experiences from Postal Collage Project No.12.
^{most recent update: March 26}
^{Collaborators, submit images and text HERE.}

Cynthia Nazari

Sarah Pritchard

Received a wild teapot auntie! Sent… Auntie as icon! Aunties rock! Title: Shrine to My Auntie (who died just after the start of this project in August 22)

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Rachel Tirosh

My initial collage was around the theme “if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound? “ The last stage got completely random and I transform it back to the theme of trees.

Christina

Emily Relf

Our party in a box made it back to me! Best under blacklight. Penguins are raving. Also visited our classroom black light gallery.

Maura Ghizzoni

My collage started out very sparse & simple, wanted a chill, serene vibe. It came back to me with a marvelous pair of leather gloves, a thin black thread throughout , a masked feminine figure and a shadowy man in a doorway…
( sorry I don’t have a picture of it when it came back!). I loved the image of the thread running thru the collage so kept it in & laced it through the whole scene. I put an eye and hair on the female figure and filled her out, added a background layer with beach scene , and “ the Gods & Goddesses “ watching over her, even though her eye had been caught by the shadowy figure. I love the feeling of mystery that runs through the piece and the thread “ tying it all together “ . Overall I loved this project and how it evolved!
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Jennifer Gatz

Lara Weiss

Rachel Rosen

How it started, how it returned to me, how it finished

mac

after passing through the hands of Lisa/Cynthia/Morgan/Almah, i decided to stay earthly, bringing out a Modern Man vs. Nature narrative.
as cognizant creatures, humans have been given the choice to protect or exploit, to care for or to destroy that which we were bestowed. as modern labor-saving innovation has transitioned to free-wheeling leaps in technology, it, and we, suffer greatly. as an earth inhabitant who loves paper towels, plastic, long hot showers, and jungle cruises on the open road, this collage is meant to highlight and expose the dichotomy of our on-going directive: the necessary restructuring/sacrificing of well-established conveniences to regain our Garden of Eden. using various elements to illustrate that struggle (unnatural blight on a Seed structure; a pretty, tricked-out Energy source replete with batteries and spray paint) we are made aware of those who, armed with their gas masks, carry on regardless(need? ignorance? greed? disregard?), and are thus denied entry to the idyllic scene inside- which, upon closer examination, reveals no pat answer/solution. rounding out the piece are leaves, printed with Talking Heads (1988!) “Nothing But Flowers”, set on an invasive vine that’s sure to cover everything if given half-a-chance.
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Sarah Pritchard

Lisa McElroy

This was the final round for Julie’s collage before it goes back to her. I worked on it after Celina and Kim contributed. I noticed it has a lot of vintage elements, so I decided to keep that going with additions from my vintage collection, a paper-doll dress, some instructional diagrams on textured paper from a wedding card. Then I added embroidery floss and tape to connect the central composition within its built-in frame.

Caren Andrews

Kim Breit

First image is what I received and second image is what I sent on to Ellie

Heather Elrick

Before and after pictures of this fabric collage purse. So much fun!

I thought this collage was beautiful, and the shades of blue reminded me of the ocean blending into the sea. Since there were children in the trees, it seemed like a fantasy piece. I thought that fish could also be swimming through the trees. I added the fish, the sea birds and the little berries.

Brenda Wilkinson

Roberta Fudim

This is the last collage I will be sending off and it is going to its originator. Have a safe journey

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Kim Cardoso

I’m the 4th and final stop for this piece. It went from Lisa to Julie, to Celena to me. I decided to use only white in this project, either scraps of paper or paint. For this one, I picked up on the grid of the tablecloth and went with the idea of roles in boxes. Now it goes back to Lisa McElroy, who started it!

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Kim Cardoso

I added the white announcement lines and check boxes on the document recorder. I also gave the girl some powered up feet.

Chris Sparhawk

I apprecaited everyone’s contributions and didn’t want to alter any of them, so I made a tribute collage to my contributors on the backside. It’ll have to dangle somewhere (or maybe I’ll just know it’s there!)

Evelyn

Almah LaVon Rice

I never know what universe I will find in my paper scrap cache.

I stuff and stuff, collect and collect, and squirrel away and squirrel away papers in my magpie’s nest. There’s precarious rhyme and provisional reason in my drawers of “collage fodder.” (h/t to The Fodder School for that coinage!)

The mixed media gods of chance will toss strange yet compelling combinations together: say, a slip of 1930s ledger paper will rub fibery shoulders with last week’s grocery flyer. While I sleep the collage fodder seeps into each other–an alchemy does not require my industry.

My orphanage of papers. (Headed to loving homes, one day.)

My paper biome and rhizome.

This month’s collaborative collage was already a universe before it landed in my mailbox, a mashup of earthworlds and aboveworlds.

I just climbed into my nest and found catalog images of hummingbird figurines. Celestial sky beings. We all come from starstuff but hummingbirds remember that more than most. Collaging is just the craft of mirroring and remembering our original stardusted coherence.

Susan Wolf

Full circle. Front and backsides. Eyes seeing and not seeing. Hands holding and reaching. It returned to me with a few too many cats. Windows frame and open. A Joan Brown self portrait 1/2 woman 1/2 cat invites hybridity and interspecies dialogue.

Erin Lawrence

These are my contributions to the collage box.

Jean Edwards

Andrea Mullarkey

I am so danged excited that my collage came all the way back to me! Immediately I thought “It doesn’t look done – there are these gaps, these elements don’t really fit together.” Then I remembered – it not being quite done is actually sort of the entire point! I added some red shiny bits, some beige paper blocks, some vintage stamps of book covers, and one blue candy wrapper. I actually really like it in the end!

I was so inspired by the black thread inked between the gloves that I added a literal thread…string between the beaks of gulls…a nod to Berkeley where the collage originator and me (and the whole project!) Are based.

The wildest thing: my collaborators sent around the envelope I sent the collage in, adding to it along the way!

Sarah Pritchard

Stage 4: received, man in pieces transformed into a juggling woman! Sent: some role reversal juggling genders!

Maureen Shields

Kim Allison

I was the 4th contributor on this collage…the gold earrings on the girl blended nicely with the leaves. I made the background and feel the dark glitter made this piece “pop”. And that iconic David Bowie stance in the yellow suit felt like a bit of fun. Loving being part of this group!

Rachel Rosen

My November entry coming and going. (forgot to post earlier)

December round as it came and about to head to New York

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i was inspired by the negative space created by the combined work of Cynthia/Morgan/Almah and decided to bring out the Lion i thought i saw.

unfortunately(?) i didn’t think to test if ALL the paint was permanent, and found out immediately that indeed it was not! 😀 fully knocked out of my comfort zone, rolled up my sleeves, & attempted to bring together white acrylic and the “still active” medium on the canvas. brought out the “eyes” as i saw them, and added a mane using cork, colorful cardstock in keeping with the color scheme, and realizing i needed a solid, chose a metallic Aqua before removing one of the affixed butterflies

when i first saw Lisa’s Starter Collage, and what everyone(C/M/A) had contributed, my first thought was “it’s done- there’s nothing more i can do with this”….

my 2nd thought was how much it looked like stained glass. and from there, i was off and running. window-shaped pieces, cut to represent the 16th Street Baptist Church, what started out as a declarative petition in Lisa’s window now occupies a representation of Martin Luther King Jr’s jail cell in Birmingham. the faceless, nameless mirrored cut-outs, adorned by Jewish poet Emma Lazarus’ words(spelled out in nail polish), represent All Suppressed while forcing the Individual to confront, examine, and challenge their own notions of what freedom really means, who amongst us actually enjoy it, and then, that decided– may begin to truly grasp that until Every Single Human Being is regarded and afforded Said Equality, we all continue to share this Prison

Caren E. Andrews

What Round 4 looked like leaving my studio drafting table – Image 1: Doors closed – Image 2: Doors open – Images 3&4 Details of the cover (doors closed)

Cara Kangas

Lisa McElroy

My contribution to Kim Cardoso’s white-and-gray-on-white with hints of blue. I kept seeing blue on top of this, so I added that, but also a bit of yellow.

Celena Peet/Kim Cardoso/my contribution. Tried to tie in photos to main composition with transparencies and big red pop, tiny circle elments crossing over some of the black & white lines. Hopefully left some room for next layer/collaborator. Also turned it vertically but that can change.

I just worked on two collages at once because I was a little behind. Two completely separate styles and concepts–it was a challenge.

I enjoyed the way my brain was able to figure something out for collage #1 fairly quickly because I had an idea about color usage beforehand. It had lots of white space so many possibilities were there, but I kept thinking “blue,” so that helped narrow them down. The second one took awhile, but once I obscured some small portrait elements and turned it to the vertical, I think I worked it out, also keeping in mind to leave some areas for the next person to work on. The portraits are still visible, but are more of a color/shape element than just straight photo portraits now.

Patricia

Second pass for “Sammlung/Ghosts”. This time around the collages seem to be highly symbolic. Really enjoying the exchange!

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Jessica Riehl

Almah LaVon Rice

This might be my most exuberant collaborative postal collage experience!

It might be because the collagists before me used a delightfully anarchic collection of papers–paper doilies, wrappings from tea, maps, scraps of tape, labels, and other fragments of mysterious provenance. None of it precious, all of it pleasing. The festival of papers inspired me, so for my part I added:

* a sparkled square
* shards of dried acrylic, leftovers from a printmaking project
* a security envelope piece
* a triangle of painted foil
* a particularly colorful, geometric corner of an old brochure
* detritus from a cardmaking workshop I led years ago
* a triangle of jaunty packaging from a box of markers
* a rectangle of spray-painted paper
* a length of sheet music
* fragments from forms in various languages

The finishing touch was adding dimensional paint in lines and dots. The thing is, it was near-impossible to stop! I could spend a few eternities wandering among this wonderfully fractured landscape, this archipelago of papers, shapes, and colors. It reminds me of the first night sky, after the Big Bang. The aftermath of a piñata, detonated. The interior life of a kaleidoscope. This is a world I didn’t want to let go of. But off it must go to the next postal collage accomplice. I dispatch it with kisses, memories of apocalypse, fire. New worlds will come. They always do.

Indeed and forever, Black Lives Matter.

Black collagists, like me, matter.

Israel Forbes

Hello Helen, I wanted to let you know that I have your starter collage. Unfortunately, I have some bad news.
I had put it on the ground to document it and then briefly stepped away. When I came back it was gone and I realized my dog must have taken it. I found it all torn up in my back yard. I feel so bad that this happened! I did my best to retrieve all the pieces and reconstruct it. So, I did get it back together but it is nowhere as nice looking as it was. I hope you can accept this apology and that you’re ok with this version of your collage. I really regret that this happened in my care, again, I’m sorry and I hope that you understand. Many apologies, Israel
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Marty McCutcheon

A completed collage has arrived at project headquarters early, just after the halfway mark, at the end of a 50,000 km journey! Good going Rozali, Gail, Barbara and Nicole!

**United States Post Office, Sather Gate Station, Berkeley, California 94704** —A few Project No.12 works-in-progress have left Berkeley through this little PO, just east of Telegraph Avenue, one block south of the Cal campus.

Roberta Fudim

I added 3 kinds of tape to Round 3 (above) and embroidery floss and pattern paper to round 4 (below)

Paige Tuhey

Andrea Mullarkey

I didn’t add a single thing to this piece except the effort to rearrange it all and I only regret that I didn’t take a “before” picture as proof.

This one came to me with the instructions: décollage. It looked both “good” and “sturdy” and I wondered at how I would décollage it, honoring what had been made this far and also the intention to undo some of it.

It sat on my table for weeks. And passing it tonight I just kinda lifted at a piece. Then tugged harder. And once I started ripping pieces off I didn’t want to stop. I peeled the nice lady off in pieces. I pulled up all the sunburst rays. Then I lay all the bits back down mosaic style on the background, placed her on top (in pieces) looking off away from the jumble. She was unstuck. I was unstuck. Unsticking was the point and the process. I glued it all back up, left it to dry and I’ll mail it off with the little bits I peeled off that didn’t seem to fit back in. In case they are useful?

Heather Elrick

This collage is what I am sending off. I got it from Melanie who got it from Kathleen. Melanie posted what it looked like when she sent it off. I am curious to know what it looked like when Kathleen sent it off…Hopefully the last two from our group will also post. I see its current incarnation as something to handle, play with and look at.

Epiphany Jordan

image #1: raf’s collage. image #2: piph’s collage. image #3: lillian’s collage. image #4: mike’s collage.

Paige Tuhey

These are one piece, back and front. Originator- Karolyn

Tobias Paige

**chris>Erin>Tobias—**Isabella—Alexandria—chris

Barbara Cleveland

progress of collage as fall turns to winter

Susan Wolf

This is the 3rd pass on Priscilla Otanis’s starter, an interesting page torn and reattached with bandaids. Text upper left concerning right to privacy. The news of Masha Amini’s murder and the #womanlifefreedom struggle for Iranians women’s human rights. Graphic additions conceal or reveal.

Sarah Pritchard

1. Turquoise tribute to my auntie on commiserations flower cardboard sent 2. Eagle received, disunited states sent 3. Blank card & Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire scraps received, Compass East sent.

Allen Chinibi

Susan Wolf

3 images: what I received, what I added, remounted on black with some spaces removed. This now gets sent to the first person.

Heather Elrick

The [first] image is what I got from Melanie in the form of a book in plastic sleeves. She had a great sense of humor about it and I’ve included what she wrote and what I wrote.
At first I thought it looked like Stained glass and I wanted to add stained glass to the plain paper. Then somehow it reminded me of a map and I made my own page and added the octopus theme and the images from the birth of Venus and some sand-like paper. I’m excited to see what others do with all of these projects!
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mac

upon receiving, my first impression of Morgan’s/Almah”s efforts was a Steward-of-the-Earth feeling.
wanting, again, to preserve and build on what came before me, what i thought extraneous was cut away to reveal and strengthen the underlying message. this required a large foundation, and pattern directions on how to assemble Something Essential was perfect in all ways. the map was harder to tame, but eventually submitted, and imperfect spots were hidden from view. meanwhile, off to the side and scattered throughout, our Future Generations to whom we pass the mantle of stewardship, tell us how strongly they feel about their position, mission, and purpose, and how elementary the problem is.
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Erin Lawrence

2nd contribution to Alex LaRoche’s collage.

Chris Sparhawk

Originating Collage: My Grandmother loved to play bingo. And she’d often relate life to bingo. She often said, “There are a lot of red dots out there!”

2nd Collage before sending to Erin last month.

Susan Wolf

This is my starter. It can be folded and anchored with a brad to stand freely. The cover imagery a bit surrealistic. An interior page has 2 window openings. One a photograph that my mother took in her apartment.

This from Lauren. I found an old postcard from Madison from one of the pail and shovel art happenings, adding flamingos and an owl to the bird theme

Evelyn

Emily Relf

Andrea Mullarkey

This one was hard to photograph – 4 clear sheets with elements pasted or drawn on them that layer together to make a collage stack. It was fun to do little peek-a-boo bits and I couldn’t resist putting a “background” image over most of the back layer, trying to tell a story that’s revealed as each layer is lifted. Maybe someone will permanently attach the layers but for now it’s kind of like a lift the flap book…sorta.

Andrea Lewicki

Round 3 before (above) and after (below). There were a lot of small shapes with fine details so I shifted the composition. I also wanted to nudge the action out of the center.

Round 2. I’ve never met a structure I didn’t want to break or soften somehow, so that’s what I did with this collage started by Deborah using pieces that were already on my studio table.

Round 1. The bird has been in my stash for a long time waiting for the right project. Part of the wing was left unglued and there are other parts of this starter collage that allow pieces to slide under. The background is a gelli plate print. Can’t wait for this collage to tell me about all the adventures it has enjoyed.

Melanie Hayes

Hope Kathleen knows I was intrigued by her miniature map and landscape snipits of her travels. I cut it up because it inspired me 🙂

Kim Allison

From Round 3, this is the work I received from 2 previous collaborators

From Round 3, my contribution to the collage and shipped off to the next contributor

Caren Andrews

I was so taken by the packaging, the envelope and a manilla folder, that I added them to the work, creating an Accordion Book format. […] Since I am using Accordion Books with the 2nd grade artists I work with, this folding practice has been on my mind.

Natalie E. Sanchez

My starter collage took shape in the form of a box with a window and a sort of window shade. I collect little boxes in hopes of reusing them some day. This was the perfect opportunity!

Round 2, Before & After:

Round 3, BEFORE:

…I totally forgot to take a picture of the AFTER! oops!

Cynthia Nazari

Kim Cardoso

I’m using trimmings from the paper cutter. I made a the almost all white collage as my starter and can’t wait to see what happens to it. Color?! When I received the first collage in the round, I added the white paper scraps and white paint.

Gnesha

I was very excited to work on this collage when Cora passed forward the first image and title of her starter – a lot of space for creativity!
Receiving the collage, I could see that Sophie had updated the starter by adding some friends for the Black Angel including a character riding the fish, two people caught in the gears, and the words “feel good, here, in this world” in French on the Black Angel’s wings.

I really enjoy the whimsical nature, use of different shapes and creatures, mixed media (watercolor, acrylic, marker, and collage elements), and how Cora builds creatures and collage in her art with unique component parts (I spent some time looking at her instagram page for more inspiration – so cool!)

I wanted to add some depth to the collage and different materials. In the end, I have added a new friend for the Black Angel: “イザナミ (Izanami)”. I drew inspiration for this parallel to the black angel from Japanese folklore and science, as the name Izanami implies.

As told in the Kojiki (an early Japanese chronicle of myths), Izanagi-no-Mikoto (male) and Izanami-no-Mikoto (female) were the divine creators charged with creating the first land. The story is long and beautiful, starting with a great love but ending in tragedy. As the story goes, Izanami, in the process of creation, died giving birth to one of her children (Kagutsuchi, the incarnation of fire). Izanagi was so angered and distraught that he killed Kagatsuchi (giving rise to many gods) then traveled to the land of the dead (Yomi) to find Izanami. There, he learned that she had already consumed the food of the underworld and could no longer leave. She promised to ask permission to do so anyway, but asked Iazanagi not to look upon her and to wait in the world of the living for her to return.

Izanagi refused to leave Izanami in Yomi. While she was sleeping, he combed back her long hair and glanced upon her by torchlight. He was horrified to find the once-beautiful Izanami with maggot-ridden rotting flesh and foul creatures running over her ravaged body. Crying out in fear, Izanagi ran toward the world of the living attempting to leave Izanami behind. His cries woke Izanami, who with shrieks of anger chased after him. In the chase, she sent Raijin (the god of lightening, thunder, and storms) and shikome (foul women of the underworld) to hunt Izanagi and bring him back to Yomi. Unsuccessful, the pursuit of Izanagi ended as he burst from the entrance to the cavern that led to Yomi and placed a boulder in its mouth. This created a lasting separation between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and permanently separated Izanami from him. Izanami vowed in anger to destroy 1,000 residents of the living every day should Izanagi leave her in the underworld. Izanagi retorted that he would then bring life to 1,500 residents every day in return.

The tragedy in the story for me is Izanagi’s shallow refusal to look past the flesh and into his love for Izanami, leaving pain in his wake.

My addition to this collage depicts Izanami as a happy friend of the dark angel. To hide her face, she peers out from behind a mask that forms the exoskeleton of her crab-shaped body – one of the creatures that may have rampaged her ravaged flesh. Coincidentally, Izanami also happens to be the name of a genus of crabs in the family Matutidae (also known as Moon crabs). This family of crabs have flattened legs and are known to be particularly aggressive predators, similar to the aggressive pursuit Izanami laid upon Izanagi as he fled from Yomi.

On the reverse side of my piece is a second hidden collage that depicts the lovers Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto in happier times – the image that still exists in Izanami’s soul.
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Daniel Mc Keon

Sophie Blue’s Stage 4, new working title: “CALLING GROUND CONTROL”

Gnesha’s Stage 3, new working title: “THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED”

Cora de Lang

Roberta Fudim

Almah LaVon Rice

Right now I’m listening to piano music drifting from a nearby apartment, a stranger’s song hovering gently over all the notes. I’m not at home.
Or, more accurately, I’m at home in my home away from home–the home of my friends. Right before I left for my trip I added to Morgan’s starter collage from California but had no time to mail it before it was time for my train to whisk me away. I just packed it in a plain mailer in one of my traveling bags. Now I’m here in Maryland, ready to send this now Almah+Morgan collage to Mac in North Carolina. The friend I am staying with is also an artist so I asked him for supplies to festoon the envelope. He came up with a box of markers and stickers and I got to work (nay, play).

Before I left: Because the trip was imminent (breathing down my neck) and my studio was in disarray, I didn’t feel too jazzed about contributing to a collage. In another room in the house–not the briar patch of my studio–I found a magazine that a friend had sent to me awhile ago. Maybe a year or two ago? In it, I was drawn to vintage images of flowers. Morgan’s starter was a map with ancient gods collaged all over it, a map that included many stats about the ruinous things we are doing to the earth. Yes, the flowers were *there* and much more accessible than the supplies in my studio, but they also made me remember something I had read about the co-evolution of flowers and humans. So I thought, *if we can spread flowers across the globe, what other emblems and artifacts of beauty can we leave around the earth, sea, and sky?* The magazine images called to me, and then my memory made a metaphor from that call.

Without knowing it, I am practicing Availablism. I just learned the name of this movement by Kembra Pfahler. But I have been practicing it my whole life, in fact. Found-object aficionad@s, the underresourced, the bricoleurs, the magpies, the collagists, and the assemblage artists–we are mavens of make-do. If necessity is the mother of invention, availability is the father.Just like the neighbor’s singing wreathing my head, I will make use of the available music.
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Sheila Klotz

The black material collage was the first collage I received from an artist in California. I added the elephant from Waverly upholstery material. The second one I received was the square box. I added the bird, stamp, women, lion, rose and red mulberry paper behind the woman on the front side.

Lisa McElroy

I made this in one afternoon, a whirlwind beginning.

Shontee Diggs

Clare Olivares

This is my starter collage sent to jori. Now I’m working on collage #2 sent from Afy. Excited to be participating with jori, Jennifer & Afy!

Eve De Ley

I was challenged by how to enter this collage as it’s colors were different than my palette and I wasn’t sure how to enter and honor this piece.
It arrived backed with magazine paper and was therefore not sturdy. I found I felt drawn to make it a frame so I backed it with thin sturdy cardboard I cut to give it a proportional frame. Then I searched for any earth tone collage bits to cover the cardboard frame. I found some interesting architectural and art bits that echoed the sculptural aspects in the collage, as well as some of the subtle colors. I really enjoyed the challenge and how it helped me explore and connect differently than I might usually approach collage.
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Erin Lawrence

My starter collage and the mailing label I created for Toby.

Arantxa Clerencia

You are somewhere between love and fear.

Caren Andrews

Round 2: What arrived in my mailbox – 2 sided!

Round 2: What left my studio table via USPS…

Kim Allison

My start (above) and my first round of collaboration (below)

mac

For me, the geometric shapes and neon colors of Almah’s starter collage were reminiscent of the 80’s.
Wanting to build on that feel, her papers were preserved, re-placed and added to after spray-painting the gear-shaped silhouettes. Pairing vintage newsprint/magazine articles w/an insect book entry for context, the pattern figures are affixed, but the mini-Kens can be played with by future artists. The half-disc is mounted to the foundation board w/glue dots for ease in repositioning.
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Rachel Rosen

Round Two with my additions heading out to the next collaborator.

Raf Podowski

Morgan Hayes

Tobias Paige

Andrea Mullarkey

I met one of my co-collaborators today.

The first piece I received from Iowa was large-ish and a little unwieldy to mail. But my mail to: co-collaborator lives very nearby so I asked if she would be ok with me dropping it on her porch. She suggested we meet up for a handoff, which we did today. First: Maura is very nice and was wearing the exact same shoes I wear every day to work. It probably doesn’t mean anything, but I take it as a good sign anyway. Second: We had a very pleasant chat and seem to share a perspective and approach to the project. I don’t know what her art looks like so aesthetically we may be a mismatch, but at least as collaborators I have the sense that I am in good company. Third: This meeting in person raises the stakes for me somehow. I was legitimately anxious about it and not just because I’m an introvert, but because now the collaboration is *real*. It’s one thing to have an ideological partnership, a philosophical responsibility to another, and I take that seriously. But now that partner has, not just a name, but a face, and a shared shoe preference. The co-work is physically embodied in a person with an intriguing green necklace and a kid who needs picking up after school. I didn’t want to let her down before, but now that I’ve seen the bumper stickers on her car I *really* don’t want to let her down. My goals this round of the project are to move quickly, not be too precious and ensure I’m not an obstacle to the group’s completion. Meeting Maura in person helps with that last bit for sure, but the first two…well, it’s just going to be a little bit harder to refrain from overthinking.

Kim Breit