{"id":263,"date":"2013-02-16T21:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T02:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/serendipity-and-collaboration"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:08:52","slug":"serendipity-and-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/serendipity-and-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity and Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you have to throw all the pieces up in the air and start fresh to have
\na creative breakthrough. Sometimes you have to throw the dice… or the
\ncolors….on the table and then let someone else play around with the random
\nresults. This is why a Round Robin quilt project is great for beginners: because
\nthey get to see how different people can interpret the same set of colors,
\nfabrics or guidelines. <\/p>\n

For 15 years I belonged to a weekly figure
\npainting group. It was truly fascinating. We would come and set up our easels
\nand paints around a live model, and then we'd paint for 3 hours with one 15
\nminute break. I was always amazed after an hour and a half, how we all had
\ninterpreted the model in completely different ways. If I saw something I liked,
\nI could try to incorporate that idea into my work in the second half of the
\npainting session. It was a great learning experience.<\/p>\n

Today I had an
\nexperience that made me think about this as a part of the creative process –
\ni.e. interacting with others as a work is in progress. The work in process was –
\nSophie's hair! That girl has the thickest hair I have ever seen – and it is
\ncurly! Since I have straight hair, it is a learning curve for me. (but it is
\nfun, because I always wished I had wavy hair as a kid) <\/p>\n

Every few months
\nwe start struggling with brushing her hair, and we realize it is time for a
\ntrim. Today she ended up with a new stylist, and I gave my usual explanation of
\nhow we wanted Sophie's hair cut. Instead of being the helicopter hair mommie, I
\nwent and sat in the waiting area and worked on editing my photos on my iPhone. I
\nnoticed the stylist was layering Sophie's hair and thinning it out pretty
\naggressively, but I decided to just let her go and see how it turned out. Wow!
\nSophie and I were so happy with the results! She has this really cute layered
\nhaircut and it is a brand new look for her. I had to throw the pieces and step
\nback, so something new could happen. It really got me thinking about my own
\ncreative process: how much do I stifle innovation by having expectations and
\ntrying to control the outcome?<\/p>\n

Hey, I know that this may sound very
\nfamiliar to many of you, but it is always worth a reminder to throw the dice and
\nlet the random results stimulate a new way of thinking. One way to play around
\nwith this in a small quilt group is to take a photograph, blow it up, and cut it
\ninto several pieces. Each person takes one segment or strip of the image and
\nmakes a segment representing that image, and then they are all joined
\ntogether to make one big quilt.<\/a> (This one is Jennings Homestead by Suzanne
\nMouton Riggio and 26 members of the Milwaukee Art Quilters, Wisconsin)<\/p>\n

I
\nlove seeing these quilts win in the Group Quilt category in Houston, because you
\ncan see the personality of each quiltmaker shining through each segment, and yet
\nthey come together in a harmonious composition.<\/span><\/p>\n

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