LEONARDO DA VINCI
The work remained unfinished. Not abandoned – never abandoned – only… unresolved. There was always something more to understand. A line not yet perfected, a form not yet fully known.
“Complete it,” they urged. But completion suggested an end to inquiry. And he did not believe in endings – only continuations.
So he returned, again and again, refining what no one else could see needed refining. Until the work became something else entirely: not a failure to finish… but an inability to let go.