The author describes how as an artist she sets a frame or boundary around her work that acts as a container. She then searches for something familiar, perhaps of a derivative nature, before moving into a period of not knowing and potential chaos but finally into the creation of something new. Similarly in a group a boundary is created that creates sufficient safety for members to explore the familiar and cohesive before moving into a position of greater tension and unfamiliarity but ultimately into the possibility of reconstruction and coherence. Artist and analyst both hold the balance between known and unknown, tension and harmony.
