My lack is the other’s fulfilment (e viceversa)

2025

He is not a neurotic artist because he does not need to convince anyone that his artworks are something they are not. These works are not semblants; they do not seduce, and therefore they do not deceive. They stand outside the tragic condition of appearing as desired, of being as desired; yet the creator always suffers when what is made fails to meet expectation, leaving a gap, a lack. The artist names this frustration; the public calls it the artist’s force, the research. Lack need not be an emptiness in itself, but paradoxically, a plenitude in the other. My lack is the other’s fulfilment.