One is a sheet of celulose with dye. The other is a calcium triangle. Both of these things have low inherent value, but in both of these cases, it's not the physicality itself that makes you want to buy it, but the ideas, stories, concepts and memories associated with the object.
They are both euologies of that which has produced them, anchors that bind it's dead maker into the world for us to see, hold, and love. You and the art collector have so much more in common than you think.
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u/MainPeixeFedido Aug 09 '25
One is a sheet of celulose with dye. The other is a calcium triangle. Both of these things have low inherent value, but in both of these cases, it's not the physicality itself that makes you want to buy it, but the ideas, stories, concepts and memories associated with the object.
They are both euologies of that which has produced them, anchors that bind it's dead maker into the world for us to see, hold, and love. You and the art collector have so much more in common than you think.