Is the process just as or more important than the final product?

On Friday, I stopped by Foxglove Gallery, a new independent Milwaukee gallery where a few local artists, Beata Chrzanowska and Mathew Gasparek, were showing recent bodies of work. After perusing for awhile, a friend and I got to talking with Beata about her work and how to stay productive. She had a lot to say about dedicating time each day to creating and how process is a huge part of being an artist. At one point we were discussing the pros and cons of blogging. I told her I love blogging as a way to stay on top of my art interests and local happenings, but I have a hard time posting my own work because I don't want to show it until it's complete. To that, Beata politely disagreed. She went back to her discussion about process and how people, both artists and non artists, really enjoy seeing the manual labor that goes into each piece of work. Valid point, right? Personally, I love going into an artist's studio and looking at their work when they are right in the middle of a piece. Plus, you sometimes get to see aspects of the piece that don't make to the final edition. So thus, I have decided to post some in progress work, despite still feeling a little uneasy about it.

Test image - April Heding

This is just a preliminary test of the two camera system of stereoscopic photography. Subject matter is not what the final subject matter will be, I just needed to get some quick test shots. I am still messing with how to make it completely 3D. Without the stereo viewer, one may cross their eyes and look at the two images. An image in the middle should appear and it should be 3D. Again, I am not sure if this one works, but I have figured out what to do differently for round two!