For, at a certain point in the creation of any work of art, the artist will recognize how the events they have set in motion, by way of their subconscious, will be possessed of enough integrity and purpose that what they need to do, to see the artwork through to its completion, is channel the medium of their work in such a way that the medium itself is given a kind of power of decision, whereupon the artist, though still present, becomes almost invisible, and more like a conductor than a contributing intelligence.