@BarbMcQuade

Glad to see you here. I'm still painting the walls as well! My page in your search field:

@alton

@tante New site migrations often show a honeymoon phase. I recall a few 'What hath God wrought' conversations on Flickr and G+. In this phase users easily and unironically say 'ours' of a place.

The illusion is one actual owners like to encourage. It falls hard, as we know.

With luck, though, we may be moving toward a model where the people who supply content also determine direction.

@posiputt

I'd say that with a visual art piece where we can point to an original that was intended to carry the load, we identify that artefact with the artwork itself.

Anything else we treat as performance art. Where are Chopin's preludes? Where is Martha Graham's 'Night Journey'? Where is Coleman Hawkins's 'Body and Soul' or Hokusai's 'Wave'?

Ultimately we don't identify any of these works with any one manifestation. The 'real' art work is the shared idea we have of the art work.