Another starting point is a vision or idea, embodying ideas, making them come to life. We can stick obsessively to an ideal or we can observe that it is just a starting point to lead us onwards in developing our train of thought. Knowing when to go with the flow or keep on the track, is all part of the creative decision making process. If things are not happening as easily as we predicted, we can take a step back and look from a distance to get a bigger picture, look at it through a mirror to create more distance or even leave it for a bit of time and come back later and look at it again. When we see with fresh eyes what we have in front of us, we can decide whether to persevere with it or develop the new tangents that have appeared. We can call a mistake we like a “happy accident” “research” or “experimentation”. I find that sometimes its good to explore further into a method to discover what else is possible, finding results that could´nt have come into existence, without going down that road. Other times I find that with determination and will, I can achieve exactly what it is i set out to make in the first place. If i think its possible, i always go that extra mile. I find that both options happen, sometimes i am guiding the materials to form, just following the next step i can see in front of me, other times i re-work and go back to the beginning until i am satisfied i have perfected the outcome to match that of my vision.
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