The certificate is probably much more difficult to forge than the artwork itself, I bet, like a high denomination bill. Or maybe it’s a digital certificate, like an NFT.
I think I’m going to staple a strip of beef jerky to a scrap piece of 2"x4" and put it up for auction. I’ll start the bidding at a very reasonable $50,000.
It’s already been done almost 90 years ago. A prankster named Hugh Troy exhibited a piece of corned beef as Vincent Van Gough’s ear.
No one will take you seriously at such a low price.
So the art is that we the audience cannibalize his lover
So the art is that we the audience cannibalize his lover
Society does, yes.
FYI, the New York Times ran an article (gift link) about the employee of a fruit stand outside the auction house who sold that banana for $0.25.