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So my mom is dead. Great start I know. Anyways she was a sculptor and an abstract artist and we’re going through her surviving artwork and pictures of her artwork.

My dad wants to make a gallery show of her artwork but a lot of it has missing parts or has broken over the years.

Since she was an abstract artist that made a lot of stuff that wasn’t like technically complex and was more about the idea of the piece and we have pictures of her sculptures and patterns for her fiber art, my dad and I collectively have the technical know how to recreate or replace a lot of broken or missing parts of her artwork.

She left no notes or anything in her will or elsewhere about what she wants done with this stuff.

Now, on her art. This is not really a matter of ethics, but rather, a matter of something we call 'the Discourse'. She was your mom, you're not trying to erase her in your own favor, and don't plan on exploiting her artwork, so ethically you are in the clear.

Now, the Discourse is a separate matter. The Discourse is what differentiates random squiggles from Art with a capital A.

The Discourse has three parts: a)What the artwork is, in purely technical matters, b)What the artwork is representing, as intented by the artist, and c)How the artwork fits within the wider culture, as determined by the historical moment the artist was experiencing, their personal beliefs, and the combination of both, since art is always a reaction to life.

Under these parameters, point B would be entirely unaffected. However, by changing point A and introducing yourself to the technical aspect, you would also be affecting point C, turning the work of a single woman expressing herself into a colaborative effort continued years after her death as a labor of love.

Me: that's WILD. These bathrooms aren't up to spec for penguins even overnight

Scientist: ...how would you know that

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