Initially, this collaboration unit intimidated me. To find a collaborator, I felt like I would have to do so in an inorganic way by finding somebody online without having any prior sense of them as a person or artist, as well as the demands of the other assessment and my entertaining multiple ideas indecisviely I was quite sure that I would reach the deadline without any work to show. However, working on this project has been a privilege, and I feel that I have learned a great deal about the potential of allowing another person into your creative space and the possibilities that open up when everyone involved is willing to take the same risk and share the same stake in what is happening. It is easy to doubt your own creative intuition and sense of what your work is and its true quality, but in collaboration, the process of submitting to what a piece of work wants to be is mirrored in your collaborators, and this can be incredibly affirming and exciting. I feel that this collaboration will serve as an important point of reference moving forward in my practice and a testament to faith, uncertainty, and risk-taking within it.
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