I love that, "to craft story as 'found artifact'" and that's how I took it. Found artifacts have bits rusted away in places, paint scraped off, colours and lines faded to a mere memory of a depiction. You no longer have the certainty of knowledge, and so what's missing has as much, or more, importance as what's there.

But some writers can't put anything together well, even brand new it has missing bolts, sprung hinges. He knows, really does know, you're better than that, but the comparison nags at some people.