this seminar saw us looking into how a creative individual should review their own work. This can be done in any number of different ways, but each method should share the common goal of having the process feed back into your practice. This allows you to bring your work together as a whole, to consolidate your portfolio and to assure one's self as to where it is that you, as a creative individual are going with your work.
Furthermore, due to the importance of producing an artists statement to be presented with your work, the act of reviewing, or re-evaluating your work from an outside perspective becomes crucial as the people viewing your work don't have the same insight into your own work as you do. I personally find that when you are ready to take this step back from what you have produced and write about it in a manner which other people will understand and respond to, means that the piece is as close to completion as it ever will be. in my practice this allows me to gain a certain amount of closure, meaning that i can move onto the next project without continually moving back to past work. additionally, this offers you the chance to take the first delve into what one piece is about, preventing the ideals of said work from being usurped by critics and contemporaries. This last point is exceptionally important to myself as i have witnessed first hand the artistic communities propensity for reading too much into certain elements of a piece which are simply not that important, shifting the ideological placement of the work to somewhere you never intended it to be.
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