How to Assemble the Essentil Tools to Support You Work summary

In chapter two:How to assemble the Essential Tool to Support Your Work, Jackie Battenfield offers her advise in becoming a successful artist. She states that meanings and understandings of an image gets lost in the image of the image itself. She says that to preserve the artist's true and honest intentions is to create work samples and artist's statements. Not only create these, but perfect them and display everything that is intended to be seen. Work samples are images of the work and images of the process of work in how is made or used. She explains that the images can be most useful if taken by the artist rather than a professional photographer because sometimes you are in a bind to turn in a photograph faster than a photographer appointment would allow. She also explains that because this image will be shown in all types of media to make it perfect to your standards. Artists statements are the statement the artist creates in order to explain it and help the viewer understand the image or piece. In the statement she says that it should be clear for all viewers to understand. She also explains that you need to understand your work before you can be persuaded by other ideas visions. She shows how to follow all these rules by describing how she followed a photographer's steps and compared other samples. She says to keep up with modern technology because it is the best way to preserve an image. Basically, Battenfield is relaying that it is our job as the artist to take responsibility to preserve our work, to showcase it in the best ability, and take heart in the work artists do in this process.