A Legacy Does Not Need a Replica
Admiration can carry a hidden wish for another person exactly like the original: the same voice, style, timing, and presence. Replication is a poor test of legacy. A person is not a template.
A body of work can continue in its questions, practices, standards, documents, and in people who take responsibility for what they themselves see. Copying a style may preserve mannerisms while losing the inquiry that gave them meaning.
Continuity asks for something harder: understand what mattered, remember how the work developed, and make it available in the present without pretending to become its originator.
A legacy does not need a replica. It needs people willing to engage what was handed to them and discover what responsible continuation requires now.