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What I prefer is if the work allows the viewer to somehow create these events or fictions.
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The speaker prefers art that leaves enough room for the viewer to imagine or invent what happens. Rather than giving one fixed event or story, the work lets each person create possibilities—whether they feel like real events or imagined fictions.
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