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When creative collectives struggle with artistic influence and individual identity

Our art collective shares a studio space and we all influence each other's work in ways that feel generative, but lately I've been wondering if my pieces are becoming too much like everyone else's and I don't know how to bring that up without sounding like I think they're copying me or I'm copying them. The boundary between influence and loss of individual voice is getting blurry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Proximity and mutual influence are threatening the individual creative identities that make the collective valuable.

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