Abstract
Failure is the benchmark of success. This phenomenon came to front during my tenure as a graduate art student at California State University, Sacramento. This paper documents my discovery of this very phenomenon. Within the confines of these pages resides a comprehensive record of how this realization came to be. An explanation is provided as to how I interacted with the three components of this idea; concept, material and process. I address how they operated in the formulation of four separate bodies of work. It was during the construction of these works that I reached my highest and lowest points.