Is it bad to destroy your old art pieces? Well not destroy but... repurpose so they might move on and out of your studio. I recently took so paintings I had done and cut them off their stretchers, trimmed them into squares and stitched them onto canvas bags. This made them into something new, but I worry it might lessen my existing works? I made sure not to include any signatures as if that would indicate they were finished works. One does have to admit that your work evolves so you might not want the older pieces to haunt you. Thoughts? Here is a picture of one painting cut into three bag covers.
These three all came from one painting that was painted on a really deep stretcher that no one ever could imagine fitting in their space.
