[doctorhandshake]

Yeah sorry to be oblique .. you are correct in regard to the intended meaning of DAW, NLE, and wabi-sabi. As for static artifacts, in my case I work with generative systems quite a lot, often durational systems that make image / sound / lighting / movement stochastically or non-deterministically over long periods, and are generally a living thing that has behavior. While a picture or other recording of those things represents a shadow image of what the real thing is, it beats nothing.

In this case, I mention wabi-sabi as the zen acceptance, even beauty, of the transience of all things, because it makes the creative act primary, rather than a very un-zen attempt to hold on to something fleeting, which some would say is the source of all unhappiness.