Stranger Worth is a collaboration between painters, Pamela Holmes and Patrick Gourley

Our Artist Statement
Mar 18, 2024
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in Writing
A collision of two artistic natures. When tied together,
we act as one, but that one is only distinguished by being together.
When we come together, we make the decision to subvert our personal perceptions and transfer our awareness of shared consciousness made available by the collaborative effort. We both are secure that neither of us could have made these paintings alone. We access unfamiliar realities more than we would as solo artists. To explain this state of collaboration we have created the word EACHIN to describe the whole collaborative experience.
Eachin must challenge identity, remove personal reference points, and disrupt human centered logic.



Eachin embraces the imagination.
Eachin throws out possibilities forever.
Eachin is abundant.
Eachin is a record of two bodies in movement.
Eachin asks what does the universe want.

Eachin steps away from the personal and opens up to the collective.
Eachin has no need for translation.
Eachin has no room for resistance.
Eachin is playful.
Eachin is Intimate.
Eachin embraces and encourages the random, the flukes, and the unexpected.

Eachin carries no suitcases.
Eachin attempts to think like a network not as an individual, removing the need for self identification. We must unlearn linear individualistic thinking, instead adopts the behavior of systems that already function collectively.