What lasts from a creative life is not determined by the maker — this is among the most humbling facts of the creative vocation. The work that survives does so through accidents of preservation, through the contingencies of who was in a position to champion it, through cultural changes that make visible what had been passed over. To make with legacy in mind is to misunderstand the mechanism; to make with full attention and release the outcome is the only practice that has ever produced anything worth keeping.
Each step builds on the last.