Does completeness matter after all is said and done?

Stairway to Nowhere - a study in the absence of completeness

As a musician, artist and writer, building a meaningful corpus of work is an ongoing preoccupation.

Does this alarm you? Are you concerned that this not inconsiderable task may perhaps not be completed before my demise?

But you see, at every step on the road to completion, the completed work to date has intrinsic value that will not go away, irrespective of whether the entire corpus is ever finished.

If J S Bach had stopped at 47, yes, there would have been no closure, but certainly, the five-part C-sharp minor fugue in Book I would have lost none of its beauty.