An image contains as many details as some will see — and others will not. For meaning to emerge, for those willing to engage with it, a detail must create a connection. It must respond to something: a use, a material, a method, a context.
More than aesthetics, a detail is the result of a series of conscious choices and lucky accidents. When the relationship between context and detail becomes clear, spatiality emerges. No detail is gratuitous if it stands for thought.