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When creative partnerships develop unspoken role divisions

We've been making art together for two years and somewhere along the way I became the one who handles all the business side and now every gallery conversation or grant application feels like I'm translating between two different languages and I don't know which one is really ours. She creates and I manage and we both pretend this division happened naturally.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The organic emergence of complementary roles has created an invisible hierarchy that neither collaborator chose but both now inhabit.

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