Our artist collective has been splitting commissions equally for two years, but now one of us is getting much more high-profile opportunities and the others are starting to feel like we're subsidizing someone else's career launch. We haven't talked about it directly, but there's this weird energy in our group critiques where everyone's being too careful and I can feel the friendship changing.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group bonds over equality of struggle, then discovers that success creates hierarchies that threaten both the work and the relationships.
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