My creative collaborator and I have been making art together for five years and we've developed this intense creative intimacy, but lately I'm noticing that the power dynamics in our collaboration mirror some unhealthy patterns from my family and I think they might be doing the same thing. We've never talked about the emotional labor of creative partnership or how to handle it when the work brings up personal stuff.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people sharing creative vulnerability discover their collaboration is reproducing psychological dynamics neither of them wants.
“Where Are You with Adolescent identity formation?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.