What do pictures want

What do pictures want?(The life and loves of images) is one of those seriously academic books, which has unintentionally given me a good laugh every few pages. Pictures, objects, paintings and various other artistic whatnots have a life of their own and desires to fill. They have validity, volition, preferences and value fulfilment. The author doesn’t say the latter but he comes close.

If the viewer is not there is there still a painting to be ‘seen’. Surely ‘even’ a painting has Buddha nature. Though I am not a Buddhist this seems to be the right response. Also every painting wants to ‘make something of itself’-this could be a bridge too far….but if the images I create within the dreamplane (when I find the seth quote I’ll tag it on) ‘go on’ with whatever degree of vitality I created them with in the first place to whatever degree of fulfilment possible, why not paintings in FW1? They must be extensions of their FW2 counterparts? And since each work or image I create is an extension of me, it will want something.