Haha, well, yeah. I think the distinction between one's experience of the piece and the piece as art is pretty useful, although I'm pretty sure I would still mistake one for the other. It makes me think of the whole idea/argument that art includes an interaction between the viewer/reader and the work of art, so how much does the viewer's experience factor into the work of art... okay, I can already guess your answer to this, haha. I never even really got that argument, so NM.