The stair is reflective of the character of its maker – it seems there is always a joke bubbling beneath the surface with Gehry.
What makes the piece remarkable is not only the young age of its maker, but also how accomplished it feels considering it's film student Lechowski's debut.
It is a mirror of its maker.
It celebrates the ascent of its maker, and sets the bar tantalisingly high for what may follow.
"Once you're done and want to remove it, you can peel it off like a Band-Aid, [and then recharge it], put another adhesive on it and put it back on," explains Dave Monahan, chief executive of its maker FitLinxx.
The most impressive feature of NatSpeak 6, however, is its very existence: it was born during the public disintegration of its maker, Lernout & Hauspie.
If so, it would be entirely at one with the practice of its maker.
Is it misguided to view a art through the personality of its maker, or vice versa?
Carved around 100 B.C., it offers the rare distinction of retaining the signature of its maker, a Greek sculptor from Ephesus (on the Aegean shore of present-day Turkey) called Agasias, son of Dositheos.
"Even though a work of art freely expresses the creativity of its maker, without limits, there have to be limits to exhibiting it publicly," a spokesman said, according to the AFP.
Is it fair to judge a creative effort by the politics of its maker, especially when, as in the case of "Ender's Game," those politics don't have anything to do with the work?
