An artwork’s unresolved provenance can intensify rather than impair its aesthetic effect
Evidence
The tracks’ unresolved status is not some dry conceptual riddle detracting from the experience of listening to them; instead, the enigma actually heightens the music’s fragile, fragmentary beauty, its uncanny intimacy. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 331
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Parallels how the reader treats infrastructure/historical objects: ambiguity and unknown origins as enhancement, in the spirit of the trees-as-worldbuilding piece.
- XREF: connects to: A painting loses its meaning as symbolic act once its originating situation is lost