What happens when a writer sits down to write or a painter gets up to paint – or a reader begins to read, and an audience begins to watch? This workshop looks again at ideas of origins and relationality in different media: the writer and the idea, the painter and the vision, the actor and the expression. By bringing practitioners and analysts of different creative forms into dialogue with one another, it aims to unpick some of the tacit decisions and practices that underpin their craft. Our interest is twofold: first, to parse ideas of meaning-making across diverse but related media, and, second, to explore whether making tacit practices explicit might open up new ways of envisioning collaborative creation as a model for broader social cooperation. If we can better understand how and where the creative process happens, can we also begin to imagine how creative work could be differently employed?