You need to know about the creative process and story though. Consider you saw one of these images in a gallery, with a label containing only a title - you migh

You need to know about the creative process and story though. Consider you saw one of these images in a gallery, with a label containing only a title - you might well assume the image was digitally altered. Without the context of how the image was created, is the image devalued in your mind? My wife is an artist, and I struggle with these kind of questions; a seemingly simple image, painting, sculpture or object, might have been the result of weeks or months of creative process - but surely only the artist understands how it came to be?