Showing the work behind the result

Text A: an original contemporary practice extract.

For its open weekend, the glass studio initially planned a shelf of flawless bowls and vases. Cloudy samples and pieces that had collapsed while being made remained packed in boxes. As the owner arranged the display, she decided that six perfect objects would reveal very little about the choices involved in producing them.

She selected three stages of one bowl and placed them in order, from an uneven early attempt to the finished piece. Short labels explained which features had been reconsidered at each stage. Sharp fragments could not be displayed safely, so photographs represented those experiments instead. There was room to show only one complete sequence, and the owner preferred a clear account of a single process to shelves crowded with unrelated trials.

Text B: an original contemporary practice extract.

A community costume group prepared an exhibition about an outfit made for a parade. At first, the group intended to place the finished costume beneath a spotlight. Its paper patterns, fabric tests and an uncomfortable early version of the sleeves were going to be removed from the room before visitors arrived.

The organisers later arranged the sketches, a trial section and the completed costume in the order in which they had been produced. Captions explained why certain ideas had been rejected or altered. A close-up photograph stood in for a delicate piece of borrowed fabric that could not be left on display. Rather than include every sketch, the group chose examples that allowed visitors to follow one clear route from the first idea to the final outfit.

What similarities are there between the decisions about showing creative work in these extracts? Use evidence from both texts to support your answer.