PROCESSING AND WRITING ABOUT YOUR ARTWORK
Worksheet
PROJECT NAME
DATE
1. Identification. How did you go about paying ATTENTION to your art work?
2. Familiarization. What are a few general and a few detailed things you NOTICED, without judgment, in your art work?
3. Acknowledgement. What can you put in WORDS as to the meaning of the work for you, the symbolism in it? Can you do this poetically?
4. Assimilation. Can you think of a few key words you can use to label some files in your brain, where you will have filed these meanings, so that you know you OWN them?
5. Release. How would you say, "Goodbye, for now" to your art work? What might be some parting words? What will you remember, or even miss? Are there new questions or ideas the art work asks of you?
Brief excerpt from The Revealing Image by Joy Schaverin,
Routledge, London and New York, 1992, p. 106.