ABSTRACT
The handling of the diverse materials that people were using, the different papers, fabrics, glues, threads, inks, writing and drawing tools and colours that were used, all informed the process. This layering of how meaning is made from word to image and image to word and back again creates a darning of art and writing. The act of writing collectively, flouted established academic traditions of authorship, ownership and individual authenticity. These subversive acts of collaboration, problematized not only the idea of individuals writing by themselves in a creative and relational world in which non-human factors – the food people ate, the hills and valleys they saw and the dogs that accompanied them – were equally the co-authors of this experience.
