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Who is the author?

A question about design, execution, collaboration, attribution and care.

This inquiry approaches authorship as a relationship to examine rather than presuming a single name. It asks how a drawing, a pattern, a hand, a workshop, a repair or a later account might shape what a work becomes.

Thread 01

Where do design, making and direction meet or diverge?

Thread 02

What kinds of labour become visible in an attribution, and what kinds are left out?

Thread 03

How might repair, copying or conservation change a work without erasing its earlier lives?

Research boundary

What this page will not assume.

No author, collaborator or institution will be named without source-based evidence. This inquiry does not settle disputes by inference.

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