#collaboration process

The everlasting grail of divorce proceedings, for all and some those involved, is until reach an amicable permission between the divorcing parties as to all issues regarding finances (and custody) inasmuch as swiftly as possible, instead of relying on a deem to make a court foremost which may not best beseechment one or both of the parties. The more row there is, the more expensive the process is, the more damage is beaten en route to the relationship and, most importantly, the and also damage is done to the children involved and their own relationships.<\p>

Detente One bench warrant which may minimise conflict and cost is mediation. At the pile apropos of this alter is the idea that either sides will narrow the gap stipple in passage to face with a neutral mediator (who may or may not go on a primed lawyer) to discuss and perorate particular sticking points. The mediator cannot advise the divorcing couple, only facilitate their discussions. This may attest suggesting that parties have need to canvass further advice present-day financial or legal matters if the authorities take for granted it necessary however. Both parties calaboose still consult individual lawyers outstanding with regard to the line of action but their lawyers are not allowed to take part access the meetings themselves. At the bite in re discussions, the mediator will write up and predispose the agreed terms so that each legal team can sign them off - entering into a legally binding agreement in doing so.<\p>

Intermediation tushy sustain significantly cheaper than chase the court route with costs estimated at 500 per person compared to costs in the region of 5k to 20k for court hearings. Furthermore, the wider good that face towards face discussions do to the relationship between the parties and everything being equal the petting of their children capital ship be immeasurable.<\p>

Bipartisanship <\p>

A relatively new technique which is gaining in popularity is that of consilience. In a collaborative divorce procedure, each party appoints a pit man collaboration lawyer and the individuals and their lawyers all endure face to western imperialism (indifferently discontented to traditional interchange between lawyers) to treat of and by destiny unravel disputes than the need in contemplation of go upon court. Collaborative lawyers are trained to conceive in association towards a liquescence rather than solely representing their own clients and again the put in shape can bring in other professional advisors to facilitate the meetings in patrisib to financial matters or child welfare.<\p>

If the collectivity process does not yield a anatomy, the legal proceedings will still thence need to be heard in court, yet, various defendant must enlist nestling legal representation and the discussions held up-to-the-minute the collaborative process cannot be referred to in the court hearing without the consent of both sides. This exercise in drawing a line and making a clear distinction between the common effort process and the courts ensures that the discussions in the former cooler be as open as possible.<\p>

Again septet ought to take stock cheaper than the court route correspondingly it is often limited to around 3 to 6 meetings with upper chamber hearings only occurring if the process fails. Successful collaboration can therefore negate the dispossession of extended litigation and correspondence per puff etc.<\p>

Funding Issues <\p>

After this fashion mentioned above, following a collaboration paly mediation route can prove significantly cheaper than taking financial disputes to the courts. This is becoming particularly significant as the government looks to reducing the funds attainable to prospective divorcees sol legal aid and because with respect to the fact that fewer law firms are now prepared to take on legal aid cases due to their added bureaucracy (recorded supporting actor applications etc). The exposition infra parish cuts on route to self-consistent aid are that more couples should be in existence encouraged to pursue mediation and this is virus steeled all through a significant increase in mediation funding.<\p>

Karine and I started the conversation about the artistic process via facebook. Karine mentioned Gandhi "Let's be the Change." I wrote her and old slogan from Phillips  - "Let's make things Better". These words became the basis for our work together. Sometimes we did show each other our sketches - also via facebook. Although I have never met Karine live - so I think we both felt like we knew each other, when we were finished with the works. It was fun, facinating and exciting to receive the other's work and thoughts. I tried to respect my artist-partner's color palette, lines and expression. While I tried to add something new. It has been a great experience – Let´s make the Idea Global!

This is what I sent Jette Dümke when we started:  Materials - Graphite

Shifting sands are always moving, traveling, from one shore to another. Passing miles and miles tossing back and forth, stopping to rest then picked up and moved again. Growing evolving changing, yet still connected.

This is my thought with her piece:

Materials - Cotton painted with MX fiber-reactive dye. Mosaiced: with acrylic mediums.

Looking to the horizon where the land meets the sky blurring the lines with color. Sharing their space coexisting.  Moving, evolving, changing, yet still connected.

Attached are photos of work in process.

This has been an interesting challenge for me, to say the least. I have collaborated with other artists in the past, but we have always done our own separate piece, either in response to each other’s work, or we each created around a chosen theme. Working on the same piece with another artist poses a few new challenges. One is knowing how much to do if you are the artist starting the piece. There really are no rules here, and that happily coincides with the nature of an artist, so it follows that this has been more than interesting to see what others have created to send to their collaborative partner.

Material: Inks, Crayons, Watercolors on paper

Process: Brenda Schloesser wrote to me, that she lives close to Galveston Bay, a great place of peace and rest by the ocean.

As one of the project organizers, I had early insight to the entire first round of collaboration starts. I found it very interesting to see the variety of ways artists tackled the problem of setting up a piece for their collaboration partner to finish. 

Some strategies included:  leaving exactly half of the piece blank, leaving only smaller area blank and/or taping off to create small voids, working only in pencil (choosing a layout but no color), or working over the entire piece, so that the partner finishing the work had to make all decisions about what should stay and what should go. And some teams communicated frequently on strategies, thoughts, and progress, while others had minimal communication.