“It’s a piece of Art”
So far no one has been able to duplicate the way that the image is formed on the cloth. It is only on the very surface of the fibers. It isn’t paint, which would leave identifiable traces and would soak into the fibers.
It’s also unusual for being representational art that accurately reproduces physical phenomena at a time when the rest of the art world wasn’t.
Agreed. The surface nature of the phenomenon. The photonegative properties of the image, the coin over the anatomical right eye including the rare but historically documented misspelling of “Caesar,” (frankly I can’t see the purported coin over the left eye,) the depiction of Christ nude when he was never depicted nude in art, the wounds in the wrists vs in the hands as usually depicted but which could not support a crucified body, etc etc etc. the blow off line “it’s art” can’t withstand any good faith analysis of this extraordinary artifact