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When external success creates hierarchy within creative collectives

Our art collective started as equals but two of us have gotten more external recognition and now there's this unspoken hierarchy that's affecting how we make group decisions and I can feel the others pulling back from projects even though none of us wants this dynamic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Recognition from outside the group has introduced an internal power differential that none of the members know how to acknowledge or redistribute.

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