Agency

During each class discussion, the topic I have found my thoughts constantly returning to is that of agency.

My main question is, from whence comes agency?

We have been trying to figure out through projects and discussion what sets us apart as artists. A current theme I have noticed in our thoughts is that agency is essential in determining the validity of and artistic action. What I mean to say is, we tend to value an art object when we know that someone exercised personal agency, made choices, and of their own accord created the piece.

But how do we determine what is agency, and where it comes from?

Can DARCI develop something akin to agency, or is it only considered agency when it applies to humans?

Similarly, we are products of everything that came before us. We may feel original or unique but we simply are not. Do we have more agency than DARCI because we are human, or are we just trying to tell ourselves that?

Where did our agency come from? We know from the Doctrine and Covenants that we were intelligences before we were spirit children, and that intelligence can neither be created nor destroyed. There are some that believe that agency is inherent with intelligence, therefore our agency was not given to us or created for us. If agency is not inherent with intelligences, than it was created by God. So did God create an environment for us to exercise our agency, or did he create our agency completely?

Is it possible to create agency for DARCI?