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Some day, all of DaVinci’s unfinished work will be finished
It would be easy to become elegiac about unfinished works.
After all, they tell us something about what we too will leave behind.
Whether we throw away the project for any number of variables or we succumb to the Common Fate of Humankind prior to their completion, chances on we too will have unrealized projects left behind us.
But this, too, is all part of the creative process.
Our legacies are organic, after all.
We cannot create them. They are the product of our creations.
None other than Leonardo DaVinci left many, many unfinished pieces of work in the many, many areas he worked as one of the archetypal Renaissance Men.
Inspiration often carried DaVinci from one subject to another like a leaf in the wind.
He had a problem that many creatives may find all too common: he came up with new ideas much faster than he was able to finish others. This is a peril to the productivity of course. Sometimes, it’s dubbed “DaVinci Syndrome.”
Recently, Beethoven’s 10th symphony was completed by AI.
The same thing can, and will, happen to the works of DaVinci given time.
