Well it was never mentioned at all. It seems like an omission, don't you think?

As for projection, it seems like you reduce all of art to power transactions. Sometimes people just make things, you know?

> Sometimes people just make things, you know?

They do, but once you get into anything that matters, you enter power transactions. I am personally not very interested in things (including art) that don't matter; perhaps you differ with me on that.

Regarding aesthetics, I used to like sunset photos, then I used to like black-and-white photography with people in it, then I started to like pensive neutral landscape photography, and now they all make me vomit. Where does aesthetics come into this? Whatever it is, it is so fluid and relative to social norms and self-image (power structures again!) that it is probably not worth talking about without that context.