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One of the benefits of being an artist is that your intentions don't necessarily have to be permanent. Your intentions can fade or be less relevant over time as you evolve. Ideally, you'd want to define core intentions, which is what we understand as an Artist's Statement. Otherwise, the forms can shift freely. In some ways, we connect our childhood proclivities to a wiser mature version and set some of the intentions as tacitly implied. (As Richard Rorty asserted in the book Achieving Our Country (1998), we either have campaigns or movements: "...there is always another campaign to enlist in when the first fails or goes rancid. The realized impurity of a movement can destroy the person who has identified himself with that movement, but the impurity of a campaign can be taken in one's stride: such impurity is just what one expects of something finite and mortal."