A couple of years ago at the Denver conference of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc.), I attended a presentation given by Nancy Bavor from the SAQA Board of Directors about reasons for documenting your work. She talked about a record you could refer to yourself to refresh your memory about processes you’d done and also as a resource for museum curators.
I had already started keeping some rough notes about the computer part of my work as there were so many steps involved, I wanted, if necessary, to be able to duplicate what I’d done. Her talk made so much sense to me that I began to amplify my note-taking. About a year ago, I was approached by Dana Jones, SAQA JOurnal Editor,about doing an article about how I was documenting. That article, Using documentation to enhance art-making techniques, is in the current issue of the SAQA Journal, Vol. 23, No.3, Summer 2013. Dana did a great job of reporting on the process and capturing the spirit of what I do.
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