Divisions of Medium

Let us, for a moment, consider all art without the divisions of medium.

The ancients did it naturally. Effortlessly. At least, that's how it appears when you study their art. The written word, theater, paintings, pottery, music, fashion, it was one and the same. An expression of a single set of characters, stories, and ideas.

We do that today, but the divisions of medium sometimes stifle the creative message. It's a book... It's a movie... It's a TV show... It's a web-series... It's a comic... A good story effortlessly crosses from one medium to the next, and nothing does that better than the modern mythology that is superhero storytelling.  Yet, somehow, the entire genre is still narrowly defined as comic book entertainment.  As if the medium itself is more important than the story.

But why?

I think it's because comics are considered to be the original source material, with all creative extensions being grouped as adaptations.

But what if they weren't? What if "adaptation" is the wrong word? What if we consider, as I first stated, all art as a single unified thing?

It would change everything!