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the depiction of self-image to the spectator, by allowing the viewer to literally view her- or himself among those images. The result was piece that through the conglameration of all five panels stated each individual's work independently, while being part of, and ultimately forming, one whole. Though modified, the quilt format remained the principle of the organization of the piece both inside each panel and among the five panels.

Ann Isolde, one of the five women who originated the piece, recounted that experience at my request in a recent phone conversation:

We were trying to work collaboratively and stay independent at the same time, so each person could grow individually while cooperating and seeing our work together. It worked; there were enough images for a large number of people to work on, and we decided to collaborate because it would have taken one person too long to do it alone. We were able to work in our own private space while working on the project, and we would get together for meetings, where we made various group decisions, like what the format would be, the size of the panels, how many images each person would do, what the theme was, what materials we would use, etc. After that we selected our images from the poem, democratically, by going around the room, each woman choosing an image when her turn came.

When we brought the images to the F.S.W., the collaboration went beyond our group, by getting critiques from the whole group. This gave my imagery and work a whole new direction. When there is a whole bunch of ideas, and various people are involved, there is so much more input that I would never have on my own; it enriches the potential. All along we were communicating on the phone about how we felt and what images we were making. This kept us going, and we inspired each other. Finally we got together to make the final decisions on how to put all the images together. At first we were going to do it like a quilt, by each person giving the other her images; then we decided to keep each person's work together in order to keep each individual's style apparent. During all this time we were advising each other on what order to put our images on our panel, so we were helping each other make formal decisions. We also have each other moral support, and collaborated in installing and hanging the work in the gallery. All along we helped each other make decisions about the work; none of us was ready to make those decisions alone at the time and we had to have input. We learned through the collaboration something that would help us make decisions next time; so it