#collaboration start

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Brenda Bunten Schloesser 09-29-2015

This is what I sent Jette Dümke when we started:  Materials - Graphite

Shifting sands are always moving, traveling, from one shore to another. Passing miles and miles tossing back and forth, stopping to rest then picked up and moved again. Growing evolving changing, yet still connected.

This is my thought with her piece:

Materials - Cotton painted with MX fiber-reactive dye. Mosaiced: with acrylic mediums.

Looking to the horizon where the land meets the sky blurring the lines with color. Sharing their space coexisting.  Moving, evolving, changing, yet still connected.

Attached are photos of work in process.

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Kay Sarver 09-29-2015

This has been an interesting challenge for me, to say the least. I have collaborated with other artists in the past, but we have always done our own separate piece, either in response to each other’s work, or we each created around a chosen theme. Working on the same piece with another artist poses a few new challenges. One is knowing how much to do if you are the artist starting the piece. There really are no rules here, and that happily coincides with the nature of an artist, so it follows that this has been more than interesting to see what others have created to send to their collaborative partner.

Some pieces looked rather finished to me, and others, like the one I did, may have been too sparse or simple? I guess this is all part of what makes this a good exercise in learning to stretch ourselves as artists. It has not been without a few bumps in the road, and a tiny moment or two out of my comfort zone, but thus far, I am actually pleased with the idea that we chose to take on this project. I really look forward to seeing the finished works!

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Rich. Dethlefsen 08-24-2015

It's like getting handed a newborn, and then make sure it comes well under way. I have done my very best.

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Jette Dümke 08-19-2015

Material: Inks, Crayons, Watercolors on paper

Process: Brenda Schloesser wrote to me, that she lives close to Galveston Bay, a great place of peace and rest by the ocean.

On the basis of the landscape outside my door - let the wind blow over the ocean until it reaches your coast and changes direction - to a new destination.

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Renata Lucia 07-30-2015

As one of the project organizers, I had early insight to the entire first round of collaboration starts. I found it very interesting to see the variety of ways artists tackled the problem of setting up a piece for their collaboration partner to finish. 

Some strategies included:  leaving exactly half of the piece blank, leaving only smaller area blank and/or taping off to create small voids, working only in pencil (choosing a layout but no color), or working over the entire piece, so that the partner finishing the work had to make all decisions about what should stay and what should go. And some teams communicated frequently on strategies, thoughts, and progress, while others had minimal communication.

I’m curious to see which techniques will be most accommodating to letting both partners blend their work into something new.  

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Lotte Lambæk 07-30-2015

"Let's be the change we wish two see in the world." That was how Karine Parker Lemoyne began the conversation with her art partner Lotte Lambæk, about the artwork they had committed to collaborate on. The words flowed easily between them as they engaged that first conversation. The two artists are inspired by the same vibrations. In fact they have both a personal slogan that has strong commonalities. 

During the process, Lotte Lambæk created three sketches. Karine was invited to choose the work she would prefer to work with. It was challenging for both artists not to finish their piece, and to leave it open for another artist. "It shows a kind of nakedness when you deliver an unfinished work. Almost as if we are starting to dress - interrupted along the way - and gone half-naked on. But it was also inspiring and exciting to make room for other thoughts than your own,” says Lotte Lambæk.

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Johny Wilslew 07-13-2015

I have chosen to paint an abstract landscape. It was important for me that my art piece was “open”, so it was possible to feel invited and inspired. It wasn’t easy for me to make a “half” art piece. I felt a great urge to continue. Now I’m looking forward to receive the painting again and I’m excited to see, how Damon will finish the painting.

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Connie Borgen 07-28-2015

It is a big challenge to cooperate with another artist about the same artwork. First of all you need to know when to stop, to make space for the other artists work.  Writing this I still not have seen the outcome.  I am very excited.