While sketches are generally seen as the building blocks to larger more important works, I place equal if not greater value on them. Sketches serve as an experimental framework from which all other media emerge. At this elementary level an artist may consider any and all ideas. Yet, once a project has been decided an essential element of the creative process has been lost. Of course larger works bring a level of depth to a subject that a sketch cannot, but at the same time the very refinement of an idea must take us away from the process that brought us there. No matter how well we polish the finished work, it will always lack the original spark of the sketch.