One of the most challenging aspects of any collective collaboration and creative ensemble is also the most rewarding, as you’re able to witness the sum of your parts being in full flexion. Everyone has to dig deep within themselves to touch something that would benefit whatever emotions a song tries to convey. It’s not about trying to find something cool, good, or remarkable, nor is it about looking for any way possible to add your self-serving signature to the mix. You are the lesser part of the whole process, your role is to be disposed to receive whatever might be floating in your unconsciousness, to carefully collect it, offer it to the communal motion, and eventually see it all being reshaped, redefined and reformed as one entirely unique entity, almost in the likes of environmental artists Tan Zi Xi, Swaantje Güntzel, and HA Schult. If you took each of their work’s components individually, you’d only find pieces of trash, commonly disregarded objects, but once assembled, it’s a completely new universe. The art piece not only projects a message from the creator’s mind but more importantly, it sparks personal sensations through anyone disposed to feeling rather than seeing. It’s a publicly shared experience lived in an individual’s utmost intimacy. That’s my perspective on crafting life with others; it’s not me, or me and them, not even us, it’s what emerges from that dug-down assemblage that truly matters…