We're talking this week about some of the considerations that go into arriving at a "final" artwork. It's not meant to be exhaustive or prescriptive, but to explore how we get there. How about you? What's your process? How do you know when a work is "finished" and not just "completed"? *When* do you know—when the work is in progress, or when you're done? Leave me a comment below about your experience.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.