
Artful Collaboration
In artful collaboration, the makers’ abilities to release, to
control focus, and to reconceive—these work in concert. The
heart of collaboration is release without inhibition into
unpredictable choices. Those choices generate challenges for
other collaborators, materials that they must include in their
own work. In an artful process, inde-
pendent artful workers continually
interrupt each others’ work with new
materials that demand reconceiving.
Artful makers learn to return to
focus. The exercise of this skill
results in a kind of concentration that
can accommodate new input without interrupting the main
flow. Emily doesn’t stop her ...