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Indeed. This is a good essay, although I wonder at the meaning of "what is beautiful and useful should also be durable". The implication is "lasting". I suspect changeable, evolveable & repurposable are what we need. BTW I met Kumar a few years ago when... https://twitter.com/NachmanyMichal/status/1350434089367646210
..he was editor of "Resurgence & The Ecologist" (they used one of my paintings for the cover). Nice guy. Artifacts that can be evolved is something I've been thinking a lot on recently. Oil paintings are an example. You can keep changing an oil painting until you varnish it...
.. Or sell it*. After that it never changes, which always seems rather sad to me (it's one reason I don't varnish and is, frankly, a reason for not selling originals).
*They auctioned off the original above to raise funds. I still miss it!
*They auctioned off the original above to raise funds. I still miss it!
One good thing about electronic art is you can evolve it and keep the original ;-) Same with books. We tend to assume the final version of stuff is the "best" but "best" is a slippery concept (are director's cuts better or worse or are multiple versions an addition to the work?)
