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When creative collectives lose individual voices to group dynamics

Our art collective started because we wanted to support each other's individual practices but somewhere along the way we began making work that looks like what we think the group wants rather than what any of us individually would create and now none of us recognizes our own voice in what we're making together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire for cohesion has created a false consensus that serves no one's authentic creative impulse.

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