These paintings — Cosmos, The Eagle North to Nowhere, and Synastry are collaborative works between Mar Bejarano and Lori Schwilling. Mar: "The best for me is to collaborate because you can learn and you can teach at the same time, making peace and making love. And the people who don’t need to collaborate…, it is because they think that they are the best, and that’s never true. In any collaboration you need to be the medium for the communication, to communicate something. It’s the same problem and point to learn in any collaboration, how to take something that isn’t you but make it yours." Lori: "My first thought was, 'Oh, how fun!' It was harder than I anticipated. Forms I labored over were effortlessly covered by marks he nonchalantly introduced. A design of which I was fond was obliterated by a wall of drips. Fierce arguments ensued about relationship and agreements. At one point I was so angry we didn’t talk for days. "