Samples are important to me – to try out new materials to see how they handle is one purpose, but to begin the transition from paper/pencil doodling of ideas and word lists is another….samplising is a stepping stone.
Whether anything like one of these samples actually goes into a work is not the point; each of them tells me something, reminds me of a whole lot more, linking what is in my mind to something I either want to pursue or perhaps don’t, or won’t.
Anyway, this is a little of what faces me every time I turn round in my work room just now. 