I was chiseling away at a test plate yesterday but I've realised something about my mental process, test plates/pages don't work for me. To put care and hours into something I have to believe it is the final piece. Testing a carving technique by carving a flower pendant works, if I just carve a plate with no purpose I peter out about a quarter of the way in. If I screw up royally then it becomes a test piece but mentally I must be making the real thing or my brain shifts to neutral.
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