"Does it help to think of it as a moving representative mosaic?"

'Artists do not generally make representative art, excepting myself.  Human mosaics were.'  They pause for a long moment.  'Human mosaics had larger and more-self-consistent color blocks.'

"Yes, with the color blocks much smaller and more changeable this actually looks to human eyesight a lot like being present in the location of the camera. Look -" He makes a camera, takes a picture of Milliways, displays it.

They stare.

'Do humans exert effort to see things like this.'

"No, not particularly. I guess some of it might be cultural but a human who grows up around photography doesn't need to actually work on it consciously."

'I will experiment.'

They continue staring, blinking once every few seconds for a minute or so and then several times rapidly.  'Oh.  I see the forms of objects now.  The colors are supposed to match reality also?'

"With some allowances for equipment, yes."

Blinking, blinking . . .  'Start the aerial ballet from its beginning.'

He skips back to the overture.

'This is much more comprehensible.'

"Oh good."

They sit through the rest of it fine.  Their body stays completely still and their face completely emotionless, but sometimes ambient effects happen around them; the glitter rain makes a reappearance, occasionally short ribbons of color dash into and out of existence, and during two of the most impactful moments the air surrounding them goes frigid.

It's a couple hours long. Cam looks at them sort of hopefully at the end.

They gaze back impassively.

"Was that - helpful, or anything -"

'Consuming media is not a project.'

"...yeah, I guess not. Is there actually a way I can help?"

'I may not know what sorts of projects I want to do, or can be done, until I have consumed substantial amounts of media, however.  This was not possible when I visited Earth.'  They gesture at the TV with a swirl of sparkles.

"What year was it there?"

'Before the turn of the twentieth century, but near to it.'

"Yeah, movies hadn't taken off then, and didn't get sound till a while after they were already popular in silent form. Also humans tend not to have wings so you don't see them doing aerial ballet but that's separate."

'Are small immediate gains more important than foundational work, here.'

"...there's a million dead Maiar, about."

"I don't know what that implies for - time horizons or whether you're willing to help at all."