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We would like to introduce ourselves Pamela Holmes and Patrick Gourley are presently collaborating by tying themselves together to paint. The confluence of creativity exists in collaboration outside the confines of habits, ideologies, preferences, deliberations, dictates, or rules. The artist most often works alone, we are embarked upon creating a collaboration that removes each of us and allows our shared consciousness to find a place of creative abandonment leaving the structures of self-imposed isolation. I am not, Pamela is not, therefore we are.

At first appears it would be easy to achieve some equilibrium but the need to be either passive or dominant reaches the middle which is not compromise but is a psychic battle of sorts, between each other and the painting. At some point the need to focus on the act of painting becomes overriding and so in this way the two merge and inhabit this new entity. We hope our method and work intrigues you.

  • Extend and Expand

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    Eachin is not a style, nor a method, but a condition of perception — a shared field where two minds surrender personal authorship to access what lies beyond them. In this space, we invoke Ingo Swann’s dual forces of extension and expansion: We extend beyond the limitations of the self, moving awareness outward into subtle…

  • John Berger aligns with Eachin

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    Inspired by John Berger’s challenge to the way we see, Eachin resists the logic of singular authorship, objectification, and visual mastery. In tying our bodies together, we relinquish control over the image, over composition, over ourselves. We paint not to assert vision, but to witness it. Eachin reclaims the space before judgment, before language—a zone…

  • Surrealism and Dada

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    Eachin is an act of shared psychic automatism. Two artists bind their bodies together to paint as one mind—entering a state where intention dissolves and the image arrives unbidden. In the spirit of the first Surrealist Manifesto, we reject authorship, logic, and ego in favor of emergence, intuition, and interdependence. We do not compose—we surrender. The paintings are not…

  • Eachin and Marshall McLuhan

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    Eachin is not just collaboration—it is a living medium. Two artists, bound by one arm, create paintings as a single perceptual system. In the spirit of Marshall McLuhan, we treat the method as the message: the body is the brush, the limitation is the amplifier. Like McLuhan’s media extensions, we extend our senses through each other, forming a…

  • EACHIN: A Practice of Bound Creation and Mutuality

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    Eachin is the shared act of painting while physically bound together- two people, one limb, one hand, one field. Eachin is not a performance. It is not a metaphor. It is a condition: a tethered gesture, a relational engine, a mutual unfolding. Eachin is what happens when two presences choose not to merge, not to…

  • Our Artist Statement

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    A collaboration of the unconscious. 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…

  • The Hannover Principles

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    William McDonough and Michael Braungart 1992 1. Insist on the rights of humanity and nature to co-exist in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition. 2. Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design interact with and depend upon the natural world, with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations for recognizing even…