Phase II

There are many interesting and valuable things about completely finishing up Phase 1:

• you learn more by going through to the end (supports, finishing support, how to apply finishing touches ....)
• you have finished work to look at and inspire you through the slogging as you start with a ball of wet clay all over again.
• working and seeing finished phase I work changes how you work - almost with more care and attention and to detail
• new ideas, or better yet new ideas that reach much further: I was planning on this finished product sitting on a round of ... and now I'm thinking of switching to a completely clay solution and wouldn't it be interesting if I cut a small circle out of the circle of clay ....

So there is the keeping what worked, enhancing what kind of worked, changing what didn't work ... all in a much more significant way simply because you have finished product to look at.