Stewardship is answerable to Artists.
That does not mean Artists are the only people who matter in Fullheart. It does not mean Patrons, Witnesses, Curators, or Stewards disappear into the background. It does not mean the Product can ignore its own work, or that the collective can function without people who build, maintain, and carry the structure around the work.
It means the work is organized around creative practice, and around the conditions that let that practice be made, encountered, supported, and sustained without asking the Artist to surrender autonomy, identity, or dignity in order to participate.
That is the center.
Not every Artist experience is the same. Artists differ in medium, pace, visibility, livelihood, geography, ambition, and relationship to commerce. Fullheart should not flatten that difference into one model of how a serious Artist behaves. Artist-centeredness is not a demand for sameness. It is a refusal to make one narrow kind of creative life the only one the work understands.
So when Fullheart says the Artist remains central, it is not saying that Artists are precious abstractions. It is saying the Artist is the person whose practice the work exists to recognize, protect, and sustain.
That has consequences.
The Artist is not inventory.
A conventional marketplace can treat creative work as supply and the Artist as the source of that supply. Fullheart should resist that reduction. An Artist is not simply a seller, a content producer, a source of revenue, or a unit of platform activity. Creative work carries authorship, context, risk, and relationship. The Product should not erase those things just because commerce is present.
The Artist should retain ownership of the work they make. Fullheart can help that work be encountered, supported, and carried forward, but it should not absorb authorship just because it handles visibility or commerce. Ownership of artwork is not the same thing as control of a profile, ownership of a payout relationship, or participation in future organizational ownership. Those are different questions.
Keeping them distinct matters because a system can become confusing precisely where it becomes useful. If Fullheart is not careful, it could start acting as though helping a work circulate entitles the collective to more of the work than it should have. Stewardship has to prevent that slide.
Fullheart's economics exist to sustain artists, the platform, and the community without turning the work into an extraction machine. Artists should receive the majority of direct revenue. Any platform take must be bounded, transparent, and justified by stewardship responsibility. The point is not that money disappears. The point is that money stays answerable to the reason the work exists.