Val Bolsover
Sharing
In childhood we are taught to share, the expectation being that others will share in return. We may have fewer sweets initially but our generosity should reap rewards in the future.
We use sharing to relate to joint experience. However I draw the line at the notion that we can share a book with children. In my literal world this would necessitate cutting it up and giving each child a few pages.
So now I find myself in a project where both uses apply: we share our work by giving it to be cut up or used in whichever way our co-collaborators choose. We do our best to play nicely with our new friends and share the experience of creating new things.
This first month has been really interesting. I suspect Lindsay and I have made things we would never have happened upon alone. We have been stimulated by the work we received and the drive to bring together Niki and Ros’ work in something new resulted in more ideas than we could possibly pursue. So we played with the ideas separately and together until we found avenues we wanted to follow. But the work also has a voice and we found ourselves diverted further by fresh observations.
I am looking forward to seeing what has happened to my initial pieces, and how Ros and Niki respond to what we have done with theirs. But looking forward I wonder who I will be working with and what we will be given to share for the next month.
