The importance of the artifact

The artifacts of your creative process signal and celebrate what you did.

A piece of writing flourishes when it's published, printed, shared, and read, highlighting the process that took you there.

The raison d'être of a piece of art (an artifact in and of itself) is to inspire and change the viewer, but also to transform the artist who made it.

Not all creative processes will yield an artifact; the artifact may result from numerous sessions over time.

An artifact can be digital or physical: an app, a book, a painting, a story, an object, a document, a sketch.

And, while the artifact is important to celebrate, there's no need to obsess over the outcome. We're not celebrating the outcome but the process that got us here.