It has been my experience that all the data you need for a complete
work of art is usually contained in the original vision. Original
means "that which came first", and by original vision I simply
mean what you saw in the instant you first conceived of the work.
When one has worked for some time on a work, one can easily get
tangled up into the artistic or technical complexities that has
turned up since one got started, and so one can lose track of
where one is going. Get confused and not seem to know how to go
on from there. I find it helpful to close my eyes and mentally "flash back" to
the very first impression I had of the idea I have for the work
at hand. It seems that far from being a mere sketch, this idea
or vision actually, when looked at closely, contains all the information
there is about the details there should be in the final work.
I might not have been able to see it all in the beginning, but
that is merely a result of lack of sufficient attention span,
I think. Perhaps the act of Creation is truly without time. Perhaps it
is all really created outside the time stream, or just in such
a minute span of time that we hardly measure it in the "real"
universe. However that may be, I find that when I look at the original idea
I had, instead of all the considerations I have made since, I
can see what still needs to go into the work, what needs to be
changed, and what need not go there at all.
Original vision