Sometimes in art you can spend hours creating something that, while in itself is beautiful or accurate, but in the whole composition it is wrong. Maybe its an arm just a little to small, an intricate rift that doesn’t flow or a design that no longer fits.
As an artist you need the strength to destroy that part of your work and rebuild to make a better composition, to acknowledge that it is not wasted time or materials.
Those “mistakes” help build the rest of the work, they created a framework for what was built around it, its was a learning experience and often continue to exist as part of the new design in some subtle way.
It might hurt to see something you created destroyed at your own hands, but ultimately you build something better.
The Strength to Destroy
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