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There's something suburbanite sexy about theft, libidinal about owning. Converting another's artwork to a commodity. To yours. Like a coworker showing pictures of someone else's children as their own. An act of lost desire. And Levine presented a philosophic question of paternity that Prince later converted to a legal one. The contrast makes Levine's in hindsight feel less political and so much more about intimacy in this deranged adoption. You let the coworker "have" the children because it's in the realm of fantasy's safety, meaning art. The coworker's devotion is real.
There's something suburbanite sexy about theft, libidinal about owning. Converting another's artwork to a commodity. To yours. Like a coworker showing pictures of someone else's children as their own. An act of lost desire. And Levine presented a philosophic question of paternity that Prince later converted to a legal one. The contrast makes Levine's in hindsight feel less political and so much more about intimacy in this deranged adoption. You let the coworker "have" the children because it's in the realm of fantasy's safety, meaning art. The coworker's devotion is real.