Mimi White and I began our collaborative journey with the idea of honoring the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and we ended with an elegy and a reflection on the current war in Iraq. While our piece is somber and reflective, it is our desire to offer hope. In working together we discovered that collaboration requires the forging of a "third languageā" something that is neither poetry nor weaving. This experience also seems the perfect metaphor for what happens during a successful peace process: a new language arises.
