Our theater group has been devising this piece together for six months and somewhere along the way we stopped building on each other's ideas and started defending our individual contributions. Every rehearsal feels like we're protecting our territory instead of creating something bigger than any of us could make alone.
More people experience this than they realize.
A collective creative process calcifies into individual ownership, transforming shared creation into territorial negotiation.
“Where Are You with Sculpture and three-dimensional work?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.