meaning of "partial"

Does "partial" here mean "incomplete" and "impure" or "according to personal intentions"?

Her earlier work has been described as ‘cellular’, ‘molecular’ or ‘genetic’, and draws on the idea of the cell’s capacity to self-replicate, forming dense honeycomb-like structures. But such images are conceived not as any kind of faithful reproduction of reality but more as a glimpse of a human intuition at work, uniquely and subjectively presenting a surface view that is partial, underlayered and semi-translucent, revealing ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ simultaneously, inventing as much as it reproduces.