orsi [cowell-lehoczky]

An artwork has two lives:
The first starts with the conception, a reaction to influencing factors, an idea, emotions that trigger the creative process. During this time it grows into a fully formed work of art: a composed expression of that process. Then it starts its second, independent life. As an artist moves on to the next challenge, the work becomes it’s own advocate: it will gain a new meaning by each and every new pair of eyes that appreciates, or forms an opinion of it. And so, sheds its close attachment to the idea that it originates from, until -eventually-, we lose much or even all the first hand knowledge, as the artist’s original intent fades. We are essentially left with the knowledge of what that work has to say to us. Contexts change over time.... And that’s how it should be.