Holly and her partner learned how to live during the day, and work during the night.
While the partners worked side-by-side, their styles parted early in the processing methods.
Since they couldn’t work during the Day, they turned their studios into galleries to display their finished work.
The gallery was like a social lounge, with furniture and refreshments.
The critical discussion caused by the atmosphere was precious to the partners.
Outside of the studio, they ate and lived very cheaply.
They shared the same goal of creating as much work and as many ideas as possible, like a bank.
Everything else was a lower priority.
The work was elegant and encapsulated.
Holly was unconvinced that her partner understood the potential of the tool to plan a real composition, something with a message.
He knew, he just did not want that.
Increasingly, Holly’s partner turned out diptychs, especially simplifying cases of opposites.
It was as if he wanted everything in its own container, separated.
He did not want to develop any more ideas with her.
He wanted a much more bread-and-butter life, making diptych prints on wood.
He said she should leave, if she stayed it would double the risk of someone figuring out their secret process.
Holly decided to leave Philly, to let her partner continue his work
.. uninspired as it was. She took the same tool to Oakland, California, as far away as possible.